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DELIVERABLE
Project Acronym: EUCases
Grant Agreement number: 611760
Project Title: European and National Legislation and Case Law
Linked in Open Data Stack
D6.4 Market Analysis and Exploitation Plan, v. 2
Revision: Final Report
Authors:
Hristo Konstantinov
APIS
Matey Kolev
APIS
Strahil Birov
empirica
Veli Stroetmann
empirica
Karsten Gareis
empirica
Klaus Piesche
empirica
With input from all EUCases partners
Project co-funded by the European Commission within FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA
Dissemination Level
PU
Public
PP
Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services
RE
Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services
CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)
EUCases – D6.4 Market Analysis and Exploitation Plan, v.2
Status, Abstract, Keywords, Statement of Originality
Date of delivery
Contractual:
31.07.2014
Status
final  /draft 
Actual:
31.07.2014
Abstract
(for dissemination)
The report presents the second draft of the plan for and initial results
of market analysis and exploitation preparation activities.
Keywords
Exploitation, business case, business modelling, business plan,
market environment, legal information services
Statement of originality
This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise.
Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made
through appropriate citation, quotation or both.
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Table of Content
1
Introduction .................................................................................................................5
2
EUCases services – potential market ........................................................................6
2.1
Potential customers for EUCases services .............................................................6
2.1.1
Legal professionals ......................................................................................................................6
2.1.2
Organisations .............................................................................................................................11
2.2
The competitive landscape ...................................................................................13
2.2.1
Market overview .........................................................................................................................13
2.2.2
National markets for legal information in the EU ........................................................................13
2.2.3
Pan-European legal information services...................................................................................17
3
Exploitation of project outcomes.............................................................................25
3.1
Commercial exploitation .......................................................................................26
3.2
Non-commercial exploitation ................................................................................31
4
Plan for business model generation ........................................................................33
4.1
Methods ...............................................................................................................33
4.1.1
Desk research ............................................................................................................................33
4.1.2
Workshop(s), group meetings and conference sessions............................................................34
4.2
Preparatory input..................................................................................................34
4.2.1
SWOT.........................................................................................................................................34
4.2.2
Business Model Canvas .............................................................................................................36
4.3
Next steps ............................................................................................................37
Annex 1: Exploitation planning framework and business model design concepts.......39
Annex 2: Templates: SWOT and Business Model Canvas ..............................................48
Annex 3: European publishers of legal data – research..................................................53
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List of Exhibits
Exhibit 1: Basic statistics about legal professionals in Europe................................................................ 8
Exhibit 2: Top 5 European countries based on number of legal professionals ....................................... 9
Exhibit 3: Number of lawyers in six EU countries according to national data ....................................... 10
Exhibit 4: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in Bulgaria .................................... 13
Exhibit 5: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in France ...................................... 14
Exhibit 6: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in Germany................................... 15
Exhibit 7: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in Italy........................................... 16
Exhibit 8: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in the UK ...................................... 17
Exhibit 9: Planning D6.7 – an overview................................................................................................. 26
Exhibit 10: Planned content scope of the EUCases service ................................................................. 29
Exhibit 11: Timeline of key exploitation activities .................................................................................. 38
Exhibit 12: Business framework terminology (key terminology within business framework) ................ 39
Exhibit 13: Porter's Generic Competitive Strategies ............................................................................. 40
Exhibit 14: SWOT Analysis.................................................................................................................... 42
Exhibit 15: The relationship between the concepts “business model” and “strategy” ........................... 42
Exhibit 16: Business Model Canvas as proposed by Osterwalder et al................................................ 45
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1
Introduction
This deliverable presents an update of D6.3 Market Analysis and Exploitation Plan
(submitted in M3), i.e. the plan for and initial results of market analysis and exploitation
preparation activities. It incorporates results from the ongoing worktask 6.1 "Market analysis
and exploitation planning preparation".
The objective is to identify and briefly describe the different segments of international and
national markets for EUCases services provision. Main groups of - potential - competitors are
identified in order to be able to situate the tools and services derived from EUCases within
their overall competitive landscape. A plan for the exploitation activities until the end of the
project is also presented.
The potential market for the services delivered in EUCases is explored in chapter 2. This
includes elaboration of potential customers and their requirements as well as statistical
analysis of the market in Europe, in particular in Germany, France, UK, Italy and Bulgaria.
The market analysis also covers information about the competitive landscape, which helps to
better describe the value propositions for EUCases customers. At the same time, these
competitors can prove to be valuable partners that can help to promote and extend the
offered service, as part of an alliance, for example.
Plans for exploitation of project outcomes for both commercial and non-commercial purposes
are analysed for each consortium member in chapter 3. This differentiation is made to
underline the focus different partner organisations have. Bulgaria’s APIS, for example, will be
aiming to use the services to deliver a commercial offer to their customers, while academic
partners IICT-BAS and UNITO, for instance, will not pursue such goals but rather focus on
strengthening their skills and knowledge base. The plans for commercialisation of project
outcomes take into consideration the comments, recommendations and reservations
expressed by the Advisory Board members at the First Expert Workshop held in Torino in
June 2014.
Chapter 4 presents first considerations regarding the various components of EUCases
business model design, including methods to be used to gather the necessary information in
order to produce a comprehensive planning report (D6.7). Key elements of the business
models in development are elaborated, taking into account the two basic purposes of
exploitation, i.e. commercial and non-commercial. The chapter also comprises a timeline of
upcoming activities.
Further information is provided in the annexes. This includes the exploitation planning
framework as presented in D6.3 and the templates used to produce the business model (the
Business Model Canvas and SWOT).
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2
EUCases services – potential market
Although the deliverable elaborates on the planning of exploitation activities first drafted in
D6.3, it also provides first research results in order to start the modelling process as soon as
possible. The results available so far and to be used for the model generation are
summarised in the subchapters below.
2.1
Potential customers for EUCases services
2.1.1 Legal professionals
Legal professionals1 conduct research on legal problems, advise clients on legal aspects of
problems, plead cases or conduct prosecutions in courts of law, preside over judicial
proceedings in courts of law and draft laws and regulations. Tasks performed usually include:
giving clients legal advice; undertaking legal business on clients’ behalf and conducting
litigation when necessary; presiding over judicial proceedings and pronouncing judgement in
courts of law. Supervision of other workers may be included.
Occupations in this group are classified into the following unit groups:

Lawyers

Judges

Other legal professionals

Legal & related Associate Professionals
Lawyers
Lawyers give clients legal advice on a wide variety of subjects, draw up legal documents,
represent clients before administrative boards or tribunals and plead cases or conduct
prosecutions in courts of justice, or instruct barristers to plead in higher courts of justice.
Tasks include:

Giving clients legal advice on a wide variety of subjects and undertaking legal business
on clients’ behalf

Researching legal principles, statutes and previous court decisions related to specific
cases

Gathering evidence to formulate a defence or to initiate legal actions, by such means as
interviewing clients and witnesses to ascertain the facts of a case

Evaluating findings and developing strategies and arguments in preparation for
presentation of cases

Pleading clients’ cases before courts of law, tribunals and administrative boards or
instructing barristers to plead in higher courts of justice

Accepting briefs and pleading in the higher court

Acting as prosecutor on behalf of the government
Examples of the occupations classified here: attorney, barrister, lawyer, prosecutor,
solicitor.
1
International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08): Structure, group definitions and correspondence tables.
International Labour Office, Geneva (2013)
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Lawyers have to be able to research effectively various information needed in their daily
work. This includes research on principles, statutes and court decisions related to specific
cases. In specific fields (e.g. international private law, EU law, trademark law etc.) the
EUCases platform and tools such as the LinksChecker can provide valuable information
that is tailored to the user’s needs and is delivered to them quickly.
Judges
Judges preside over civil, criminal and administrative proceedings in courts of law. Tasks
include the following (those tasks to which EUCases services could provide support are
underlined):

Presiding over trials and hearings;

Interpreting and enforcing rules of procedure and making rulings regarding the ability of
evidence;

Determining the rights and obligations of the parties involved, and in cases tried by jury;

Instructing the jury on points of law that are applicable to the case;

Weighing and considering evidence in non-jury trials and deciding legal guilt or innocence
or degree of liability of the accused or defendant;

Passing sentence on persons convicted in criminal cases, determining damages or other
appropriate remedy in civil cases and issuing court orders;

Researching legal issues and writing opinions on the issues.
Examples of the occupations classified here: chief justice, judge, magistrate.
Similarly to lawyers, judges need to be able to interpret rules and research legal issues. In
the cases where ruling are linked to EU law, the EUCases platform can be a valuable
source for swift and efficient decision making.
Other legal professionals
The group includes those who perform legal functions other than pleading or prosecuting
cases or presiding over judicial proceedings. In such cases tasks would include:

Giving advice on legal aspects of various personal, business and administrative
problems;

Drawing up legal documents and contracts;

Arranging property transfers;

Determining, by inquest, the causes of any death not obviously due to natural causes.
Examples of the occupations classified here: coroner, jurist, notary.
Other legal professionals such as notaries can also make use of a platform for EU related
cross-border legal information when drawing up documents or providing advice with
international characteristics.
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Legal and related associate professionals
"Legal and related associate professionals" perform support functions in courts of law or in
law offices, provide services related to such legal matters as insurance contracts, the
transferring of property and the granting of loans and other financial transactions, or conduct
investigations for clients. Tasks include:
Documenting court proceedings and judgements

Serving statements of claims, summonses, warrants, subpoenas and other court orders

Maintaining order in court and hearing rooms

Preparing legal documents including trial briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills and contracts,
etc.

Investigating facts, assembling evidence and researching relevant statutes, decisions
and other legal documents to prepare cases

Advising clients on legal matters
Examples of the occupations classified here: bailiff, conveyancing clerk, court clerk,
judge’s clerk, justice of the peace, law clerk, legal assistant, paralegal, private
detective, title searcher.
Research can require looking up specific cases in different countries on the application of
EU law, therefore EUCases can be of help to assistants and associate professionals in
their daily research work.
Available statistics on size of the market
Eurostat
Exhibit 1 provides an overview of the total number of legal professionals, broken down into
four groups as defined in the previous chapter, for each of the 28 EU Member States. The
figures are based on data sourced from Eurostat2 specifically for the purpose of the present
report. Accordingly the total number of legal professionals in the EU in 2012 was ca. 1.1
million (excluding Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Latvia and Portugal, for which this
source does not give any figures).
Exhibit 1: Basic statistics about legal professionals in Europe
Country
FR
AT
BE
BG
CY
CZ
DE
2
Lawyers
Judges
Other legal
professionals
(in 1000s)
(in 1000s)
(in 1000s)
13.2
2.4
3.4
3.3
22.7
27.2
17.5
9.6
13.7
58.5
63.7
9.8
16.3
13.1
132.6
Legal & related
Associate
Professionals
(in 1000s)
5.2
12.7
8.0
36.3
Total
104,156
34,847
42,058
37,980
250,149
ISCO-08, codes: 2611, 2612, 2619, 3411
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Country
DK
EE
ES
FI
GR
HR
HU
IE
IT
LT
LU
LV
MT
NL
PL
PT
RO
SE
SI
SK
UK
EU-28
Lawyers
Judges
Other legal
professionals
(in 1000s)
(in 1000s)
(in 1000s)
0.3
1.5
0.7
1.8
0.2
0.2
0.1
2.4
10.9
4.1
4.7
0.8
1.2
2.5
1.2
7.0
18.0
2.0
3.8
0.5
51.9
31.2
25.8
18.8
5.0
1.8
74.0
295.8
2.1
8.2
5.0
10.9
5.0
2.1
1.0
16.4
61.0
33.8
5.6
1.6
10.7
199.5
598.3
Legal & related
Associate
Professionals
(in 1000s)
5.8
1.7
1.9
1.6
1.1
0.2
0.5
6.7
6.3
6.8
3.5
0.7
0.9
59.9
159.8
Total
4,854
16,725
14,357
32,601
1,620
8,324
6,356
2,025
77,329
109,319
70,421
32,594
8,176
14,608
259,433
1,127,934
Exhibit 2: Top 5 European countries based on number of legal professionals
NL
77,329
FR
104,156
UK
259,433
PL
109,319
DE
250,149
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Other data sources (selected countries only)
A recent report issued by the Bar Associations of six European countries3 contains a
compilation of statistical data from national data sources.
Exhibit 3: Number of lawyers in six EU countries according to national data
Country
Number of lawyers
2009
2010
2011
Belgium (French and
German speaking)
7,112
7,188
7,344
Belgium (Dutch
speaking)
9,057
9,329
9,560
France
50,314
51,758
53,744
Germany
150,377
153,251
155,679
Italy
152,097
156,834
162,820
1,695
1,771
1,884
118,775
125,208
130,638
Luxembourg
Spain
Source: Avocats.Be et al. (2013)
Comparison of the figures in Exhibit 1 with those in Exhibit 3 shows sizeable differences in
some countries, which are due to differences in definitions used and data collection
methodologies employed. For example, the data for Italy in Exhibit 3 includes only and the
number of lawyers registered with Italy's National Social Security Fund (Cassa Nazionale di
Previdenza e Assistenza Forense; CNAPAP). Lawyers declaring an earning of less than
EUR 10,000 or a turnover of less than EUR 15,000 are not obliged to register with CNAPAP.
If they are included, the total number of lawyers in Italy was 216,728 on 1 January, 2012.
Below are some additional / complementary data on the countries represented by the
EUCases consortium.
Bulgaria
The number of lawyers listed in the registers of the Bar Associations was 14,575 in October
2011 (latest data available at time of writing).4
The number of magistrates in Bulgaria was 4,784; judges: 2,281; investigators (examining
magistrates) and prosecutors: 2,503 (latest data, 2012).5
The number of public notaries was 978 in late 2013.6
The number of private enforcement agents was 154 at the end of 2012.7
The number of in-house legal councils was around 7000 in 2008.8
Germany
According to the same source as used for the table in Exhibit 3, the number of lawyers in
Germany has increased to 158,426 by 2012 and 160,894 by 2013.9
3
Avocats.Be et al. (2013) 'Legal Profession – Key figures of six countries of the European Union', URL:
http://www.ccbe.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/NTCdocument/Statistics_Book_Angl1_1366619056.pdf
4
Source: Bulgarian Bar Registers
5
Source: Supreme Judicial Council
6
Source: Notary Chamber of the Republic of Bulgaria
77
Source: Bulgarian Chamber of the private enforcement agents
8
Source: National Union of Jurisconsults (an update is expected in 2014 when new survey data will become available)
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In 2012 the number of Magistrates ("Schiedspersonen") was 4,904; of Judges: 20,382; of
Prosecutors: 5,231.10
Italy
Using a different source11 than the one sourced for the table in Exhibit 3, the number of
lawyers in Italy has developed as follows:
2008
198.000
2010
211.962
2012
247.040
This table shows statistics about practicing lawyers, excluding legal advisors, between 2008
and 2012. Regardless of the data source being used, there is consensus that the number of
lawyers in Italy has been growing steadily, as stressed in the 3rd and 4th Report of the Council
of Europe12.
2.1.2 Organisations
In addition to individual legal professionals described in the previous Chapter, special
attention have to be paid to the group of the legal experts working (quite often as employees)
in organisations such as government bodies, public sector agencies and private sector
companies. These are sometimes referred to as “in-house legal councils”.
The nature of the tools and services developed by EUCases means that the target group
consists mainly of those who are working for big enterprises having subsidiaries in various
Member States, selling goods/services across the EU or having other good reasons for
attaching importance to cross-border legal information.
In marketing terms, the difference between individual legal professionals (most of them will
be only users of the EUCases services) and organisations (clients/payers of the EUCases
services) employing legal experts lies in the communication strategies that need to be
adopted to reach the target audience and to convey a convincing value proposition to them.
Public bodies in Member States
National institutions

Ministries and state agencies – users will be legal and other experts in the divisions
responsible for European integration, international contacts, drafting of proposals and
bills for new legislation, etc. For example, in Bulgaria the number of national Ministries is
15, plus more than 80 state agencies.

Public sector bodies independent from the executive
This group typically includes:

National Social Security Institute

National Health Insurance Fund

National Bank

Commission for Protection of Competition
9
Source:
Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer
gesamtentwicklungraeklein2013.pdf)
10
Source: Bundesjustizamt,
Schiedspersonen.html
11
Source: Council of Europe (2008-2010); National Lawyers Registry (2012)
12
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/cooperation/cepej/evaluation/archives_en.asp
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
Patent Office

and many others
Regional and local administrations and municipalities (NUTS I, II, III)
Users will be legal and other experts mainly in the divisions responsible for EU programs and
projects.
Courts
Being “the keystone of the European Union judicial system”,13 judges next to lawyers in law
firms are the main target group of EUCases services.
Prosecutor offices
The project needs to develop an understanding of the purchasing procedures employed in
each of the Member States. For example, in Bulgaria the number of prosecutor offices is the
same as the number of courts, but procurement is centralised, i.e. only the Prosecutor
General Office buys centralised software or information services for all other offices.
Academic institutions
This group includes universities and other public and private sector research organisations.
Within each organisation, PR activities may need to focus on the unit responsible for library
services.
EU institutions
EU institutions are considered of major interest as target group. They include:

Main institutions and bodies14 – 14 (incl. EU Council, Parliament, Commission and Court
of Justice) and their subdivisions (e.g. each DG in the EC could be potential client);

Agencies (currently 45 in total).
International organisations
Examples include:

OECD

OSCE

International Criminal Court

European Court of Human Rights

Council of Europe, etc.
Private corporations
These could be also national or international, the latter being EUCases' top target group.
Law firms
Here clients will be 1) international law firms (having offices in several EU countries) and 2)
the law firms based in one country only, but having clients from other EU countries.
13
In its Resolution of 9 July 2008 (European Parliament resolution of 9 July 2008 on the role of the national judge in the
European judicial system (2007/2027(INI)) the European Parliament determines the national judges as “the keystone of the
European Union judicial system” who play “a central and indispensable role in the establishment of a single European legal
order”.
14
See http://europa.eu/whoiswho/public/index.cfm?fuseaction=idea.entity
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The consortium will explore suitable data sources for acquiring addresses of relevant law
firms in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Italy, and the U.K. A good source may be the
ranking of the portal “Legal500.com"15.
Other consulting firms
All what is valid for law firms is also valid for other types of consulting firms like tax
consultants, auditing and accounting firms, etc.
Private enterprises engaged in cross-border business within the EU
Here target customers will be 1) multinational companies having subsidiaries in several
Member States and 2) large companies based in one country, but having cross-border import
/ export activities and clients.
Within private enterprises, target groups include Legal Information Managers and
Compliance Managers.
Again, suitable sources of address information for targeting marketing activities at these
groups will be explored in due time.
Non-governmental organisations
Here target customers will be 1) Pan-European NGOs having offices in several EU Member
States16 and 2) National NGOs working on EU and international projects / problems.
2.2
The competitive landscape
EUCases tools and services will be part of the market for legal information services. This
market has traditionally been dominated by legal publishers but the main medium of
information provision has shifted from paper based publications (e.g. loose-leaf collections)
to online channels.
2.2.1 Market overview
As the EC reported in the accompanying document to the 2009 Communication on the Reuse of Public Sector Information, the online European market for legal information (which
includes legal, tax and regulatory information) was valued at €730 million in 2006. The
Groupement Français de l’Industrie de l’Information (GFII) reported that the French legal
information market was worth €246 million. The source quotes growth estimates of this
market for the coming 5 years of about 7% per annum.17
2.2.2 National markets for legal information in the EU
Bulgaria
Exhibit 4: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in Bulgaria
Publisher name
APIS
Description
The very first company from APIS group of companies was founded in 1989 by
Mr. Vasil Hristovich. In 1991 APIS launched the Collection of Laws monthly
serial publication, the Law Library loose-leaf publication and other legal
15
For instance, see the ranking for BG here: http://www.legal500.com/c/bulgaria/corporate-and-manda/corporate-andmanda#table_239
16
See the table at the end of this document: http://aei.pitt.edu/2250/1/002640.PDF
17
Source: European Commission (2009) Accompanying document to the Communication on the re-use of Public Sector
Information – Review of Directive 2003/98/EC – [COM(2009) 212 final]
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Publisher name
Description
information publications. The first computerised legal information system was
developed in 1993. Currently, some 5200 businesses and organisations in
Bulgaria are customers of APIS’ products and about 70 000 end-users are
benefiting from the legal, administrative, business and economic information
services provided by the company.
Ciela
Ciela was established in January 1991 as a business consulting company and
a publishing house for publications in the field of law. It has an own printing
house and publishes more than 250 new titles per year - textbooks and training
aids, dictionaries, collections of normative acts and court practices,
monographs and studies, fiction books. Since 1997 Ciela is developing also
computerised legal and business information products, maintaining current and
archive normative documents from the Bulgarian legislation, administrative
procedures, European legislation, translations of the legislative framework in
English and Russian languages, as well as products specializing in different
areas - accountancy, taxes, insurance, construction, customs and currency
regulations, energy sector, education, etc.
Lakorda
Lakorda, the newest company on the Bulgarian legal information market, was
established in 2006. It provides legislative, regulatory, case law and company
information.
France
Exhibit 5: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in France
Publisher name
Description
EDITIONS
DALLOZ
Founded in 1957, nowadays Dalloz is a part of group EDITIONS LEFEBVRE
SARRUT. Editions Dalloz is a leader of publisher market for professionals and
universities in France. They offer a lot of legal periodicals, books,
encyclopaedias, codes and other online products. Only the number of court
decisions exceeds 2 million documents.
Wolters Kluwer
France
Wolters Kluwer France is a part of the leading international information services
provider Wolters Kluwer. The group of companies operates in over 40 countries
across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America with annual
revenues of all Wolters Kluwer companies: 3.6 billion € (2013). Only in France
the staff is about 844 people. Their French product Lamy contains almost 5
million documents.
LEXTENSO
Founded in 2002, the company is publishing over 20 legal magazines and
reviews.
LexisNexis
France
The French division of the Anglo-Dutch Reed Elsevier – major global provider
of legal information, owns the brand and premium legal information service
JurisClasseur.
LEXBASE
Apart from its publishing activity today Lexbase company is working in the area
of data processing. Founded in 2008, the company publishes a number of legal
reviews and encyclopaedias. Their legislation database includes all French
codes, Official Journal`s issues, collective agreements and acts of different
independent administrative authorities. In the area of case law area the
company offers a significant amount of decisions of all French jurisdictions.
Juritel
Founded in 1995 for legal information services and mediation, Juritel offers
decrees and court decisions in PDF format, all divided into categories like
contract and internet law.
Luxia
The company was founded in 2009 and offers access to French and EU
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Publisher name
Description
legislation and case law in HTML format.
Éditions des
Parques
When started in 1982 the company was just a publisher of legal books and
periodicals, but now is specialised in intellectual property law and law of new
technologies. Users can find legislation and case law with detailed comments in
these legal areas.
Most of these publishers have been explored thoroughly as potential competitors / partners
as part of Annex 3.
Germany
Exhibit 6: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in Germany
Publisher name
Description
C.H.BECK
Founded in 1763, C.H.Beck is one of the most well-known and reputed names
in German publishing. Its available catalogue contains more than 9,000 works,
including numerous electronic publications and more than 70 journals. With an
annual production of up to 1,500 new releases and reissues the publisher ranks
among the largest German book and magazine publishers.
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer enables legal, tax, finance, and healthcare professionals to be
more effective and efficient through provision of information, software, and
services that deliver vital insights, intelligent tools, and the guidance of subjectmatter experts. It employs over 19,000 people worldwide.
Recht für
Deutschland
Recht für Deutschland is the largest electronic collection of German law
gazettes, documenting the official text of every German law. It contains over
1.3 million pages from 40 publications with the official text of all German
Federal and State laws, as well as the administrative regulations issued by
many government departments and agencies. The collection provides complete
coverage of all the laws enacted by the German Federal government since its
establishment in 1949. It is updated daily. The service is designed to be used in
many ways – as an archive library, as a free information service updated daily,
or as paid e-mail service that provides an attached PDF file of the respective
gazette.
Recht für Deutschland offers an English language interface to make German
law more widely accessible.
Recht für Deutschland GmbH belongs to the Makrolog Content Management
AG group of companies.
LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a major global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions
designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate,
government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis
describes itself as a pioneer in online information with its Lexis® and Nexis®
brands of services. LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries
with more than 15,000 employees worldwide.
The German business of LexisNexis was acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2011.
juris
A legal information system for the Federal Republic of Germany in the form of a
portal with more than 5 million legal documents. With its comprehensive
collection of court decisions, judgments, laws, norms, commentaries and
magazines juris is a leading online provider of legal information in Germany.
WEKA
WEKA has over 20 publishing houses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
France and the Netherlands. It is offering numerous professional publications
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and online portals, trade magazines and events in the field of law and taxes.
A trademark of the Haufe Group, Haufe is a portal offering up-to-date
information in formats which are prepared for the needs of legal professionals,
with a focus on topics related to HR, business, and tax law.
Haufe
Most of these publishers have been explored thoroughly as potential competitors / partners
as part of Annex 3.
Italy
Exhibit 7: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in Italy
Publisher name
Description
GIUFFRE' Editore
Founded in 1931 by Antonio Giuffré, it has published more than 20.000 works
available, including electronic papers. In 1958 Giuffré has printed the first
volume of “Encyclopedia of Law”, one of most important law reviews, involving
important lawyers of '900. In 1988 Giuffré has published “Juris Data”, the first
data-base on Italian case law available via Floppy Disks and CDs-rom. In 2009
this publisher has founded “Giuffré Informatica”, the software house that aims to
develop innovative solutions to lawyers, lecturers in Law Sciences and
Scholars. Every year, Giuffré produces almost 800 legal and economics
publications to 160.000 clients.
Gazzetta ufficiale
The Official Journal is the first source of information on legislation in Italy. It is
the tool to disseminate, inform and formalize legislation and public and private
acts. It is being published by State Mint in paper version and, since 2009, in an
electronic version (PDF).
UTET Giuridica
(WK)
Founded in 1791 in Turin, UTET is a pioneer on the legal information market in
Italy. During the 1980s and 1990s, UTET has acquired a number of smaller
publishers, expanding its market beyond the legal area. In 2005 it has sold its
law department (UTET Giuridica) to Wolters Kluwer group. UTET Giuridica
publishes several law reviews, codex, important monographs and treatises, and
many daily updated info services. It also offers several legal data bases on
legislation and Italian case law, mainly in DVD format.
IPSOA (WK)
Ipsoa is also part of Wolter Kluwer group. It offers internet services for lawyers,
law firms, tax experts, compliance officers, scholars, business men. Ipsoa
publishes legal and economic reviews (including electronic versions), many
data-bases in DVDs on legislation and case law, and also offers e-learning
services.
MAGGIOLI Editori
Maggioli Editori provides software and services mainly related to innovation in
the public administration sector. It publishes over twelve specialised magazines
and more series of titles, among volumes, data bases, software and internet
services. The data bases, both online and offline, are an important resource
also for all professionals and businesses that operate in the legal, tax and
corporate law fields.
The analysis of the market for legal information services will be further explored in the
coming months, results of which will be documented in Deliverables D6.5.
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UK
Exhibit 8: The main publishers in the market for legal publications in the UK
Publisher name
Description
THOMSON
REUTERS
(PROFESSIONAL)
UK
Founded in 1982, the company is legal division for United Kingdom of the
worldwide leader in legal information THOMSON REUTERS. The group
includes many renowned legal information publishers and brands in UK, such
as Sweet & Maxwell, Lawtel, Westlaw UK, Ellis publications and others.
JUSTIS
PUBLISHING
The company was founded in 1985 for different publishing activities. Justis is a
full text online legal library of UK, Irish and EU law dating back to 1163. They
are a publisher of electronic legal information and provider of publishing
software and services. The company has been publishing titles online and on
CD-ROM since 1986 and has secured a leading position in this sector,
concentrating particularly on United Kingdom and European Union legal, official
and business information.
WOLTERS
KLUWER (UK)
LIMITED
REED ELSEVIER
(UK) LIMITED
CASECHECK
Founded in 1948 the company is a part of the global company Wolters Kluwer.
Wolters Kluwer UK, incorporating the core brands of CCH and Croner, is one of
the UK's most respected providers of information and consultancy services. Its
main activity is book publishing and information services in many sectors like
Tax, Accountancy, Human Resources and Health & Safety.
Founded in 1992 REED ELSEVIER (UK) LIMITED is a British division of the
global legal provider Reed Elsevier group. Its trading name for the market in the
United Kingdom is LexisNexis. The company offers a variety of products and
services in the area of Legal intelligence, Business management, Tax &
Accounting, Enterprise software and Legal education.
CaseCheck was founded in 2007 and is an extensive resource of court cases
and case law used by lawyers, law students, in-house lawyers, paralegals,
claims handlers, barristers and advocates throughout the UK and the rest of the
world. Case law archive is kept continually up to date, as are their news articles
and e-books.
These publishers have been explored thoroughly as potential partners as part of Annex 3.
2.2.3 Pan-European legal information services
In this section we examine existing Pan-European legal information services that aim at
provision of legal resources from various Member States linked to EU law. The information
included has already been discussed in D1.1; we refer here again to the most relevant
European services. The focus is on cross-border services which 1) offer legal content from at
least two Member States, and 2) the legal content provided is closely related to the
application of EU law. Outside the scope of the study remain purely national suppliers,
despite the fact that they provide information about EU legislation and case law.
Non-commercial services
Altogether six significant non-commercial cross-border legal information services have been
identified during the study performed by the project partners. As a rule, these have been
developed either by the European Commission or by non-profit supranational organisations
with the financial support or direct involvement of EU institutions.
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DEC.NAT Database
DEC.NAT Database18 (from French: “Décisions nationales”) is a collection of metadata
information and references to national court decisions of the Member States on the
application of EU law available as an online service on the web site of the Association of the
Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union i.n.p.a.
(ACA-Europe). The references and the juridical analysis of the national decisions have been
supplied by the Research and Documentation Service of the Court of Justice of the
European Union. Following an agreement between the Court of Justice and the ACA-Europe,
this information was passed on to the association, which has developed an interface allowing
the public to consult the data over the Internet using a number of search tools. The database
comprises metadata in English and French (but not the full original texts) of more than 26
600 decisions rendered since 1959. It has been lastly brought up to date on 4th December
2012. For each decision, DEC.NAT contains:




national references – the names of the parties, an indication of the national provisions
applied and the relevant doctrine;
international or European references with an indication of the Community provisions
applied;
an analysis of the decision – keywords, i.e. a summary of the subject of the decision;
in some cases, a fourth section indicating the preliminary ruling of the Court of
Justice.
Presently, DEC.NAT database is an integral part of ‘Sector 8’ of the EUR-Lex service
(http://eur-lex.europa.eu/RECH_jurisprudence-nat.do) and is updated regularly with new
cases (see above the section about the EUR-Lex portal). In the end of 2013 the database
contains references to more than 27 300 decisions, incl. a limited number of decisions of the
Supreme Court of the United States, the European Court of Human Rights and the EFTA
Court. The only shortcomings of this high quality value added service is the fact that the
database does neither offer the full text of the decisions nor links to national sources where
these texts can be consulted.
JuriFast Database
JuriFast Database19 includes the original full texts supplied with metadata and summaries in
English and French of more than 1570 national court decisions. The aim of this online
service is to offer immediate access to the latest developments in national case law which is
linked to EU law.
As in the case with the DEC.NAT database, the search interface of the online service was
also developed and has been further updated by ACA-Europe. Most of the decisions have
been judged on the grounds of a preceding preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice and are
supplied in a “preliminary file” together with the preliminary questions submitted to the Court
of Justice and the Court's answer to these questions. The rest part of the JuriFast database
is formed by decisions of the national jurisdictions which are not connected with preliminary
proceedings, but nonetheless are acts on the application of EU law. The decisions are
directly supplied by the research and documentation services of the ACA-Europe's member
institutions. For each decision, the database contains:
 the date and a short description of the subject;
 the full text of the ruling or judgement;
 a summary in French and English;
 a link to the relevant provisions of European law.
18
http://www.aca-europe.eu/index.php/en/dec-nat-en.
19
http://www.aca-europe.eu/index.php/en/jurifast-en.
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In the case of preliminary questions, additional information is added in due course, namely:
 a link to the response of the Court of Justice;
 the decision resulting from this response.
JURE database
JURE Database20 (the abbreviation comes from JUrisdiction, Recognition, Enforcement) was
developed and is further maintained by the European Commission. It contains case law of
the Court of Justice of the EU and of the Member States’ courts on the interpretation of the
EU legislation in the field of international private law: Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001
(Brussels I Regulation), Regulation (EC) № 2201/2003 (new Brussels II Regulation),
Regulation (EC) № 1347/2000 (Brussels II Regulation), the 1968 Brussels Convention and
the 1988 Lugano Convention.
The database is constantly updated through contributions made by experts in this field and
reviewed by the European Commission. However, the updates after 2009 are published in
the JURE subdomain of Sector 8 (national case law) on the new EUR-Lex portal21 only.
Therefore, the up-to-date collection on the New EUR-Lex contains more than 5740 decisions
(around 500 of them are judgements of the Court of Justice and opinions of AdvocatesGeneral, and 5240 are national court decisions) whereas the search interface of the JURE
Database offers access to about 140 decisions of the Court of Justice and 2400 decisions of
national courts (supreme courts, courts of appeal and first instance courts of the Member
States). Next to metadata in English and French (national case number, year, country, court
name, court type, language, parties, publication reference, related legal instrument and
referred provisions), JURE database contains key terms and summaries of the cases in
English, French and German as well as in the original language of the judgment.
Common Portal of National Case Law
The web site of the Network of the Presidents of the Supreme Judicial Courts of the
European Union provides a service named “Common Portal of National Case Law”, in fact a
meta-search engine22 which enables users to search in the national case law databases
through a common search interface. This project began in June 2006. It is supported by the
European Commission and is monitored by the Legal Information Group of the European
Council. In July 2008, the first version of the Portal has been released. It ensured a privileged
access to all the case law databases (with login and password) for national Supreme Courts,
the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Portal is also
accessible to the general public but restricted to the free case law databases.
The search can be done in twenty languages: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English,
Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. The user can enter key
words in one these languages. However, search can be done in most 5 case law databases
chosen by the user from the “List of search engines available in the Portal”.23 The query is
first translated by the translation Google database, Eurovoc and the EU’s multilingual term
database IATE (InterActive Terminology for Europe)24. Therefore, users are advised to use
common keywords and to avoid words in plural in order to have a higher probability that the
chosen keywords will be translated correctly by Google, Eurovoc or IATE. Users can modify
the proposed translation. The list of the results can be ordered by country, relevance and
20
http://ec.europa.eu/civiljustice/jure.
21
See the advanced search form on http://new.eur-lex.europa.eu/advanced-search-form.HTML and the “JURE”
subdomain option from the “Domain selection” drop down box.
22
http://network-presidents.eu/rpcsjue.
23
http://reseau-presidents.eu/rpcsjue/status.php.
24
http://iate.europa.eu.
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date. For each decision in the list user can see the following data: country, source, title, date
(if available), summary (if available), link to full text. The text is available in the original
language. However, registered users can obtain machine translation of the text by using the
DGT (Directorate-General for Translation) online translation database where decisions are
available in HTML format.
FRA Case Law Database
FRA Case Law Database25 is a case law collection of the Fundamental Rights Agency,
containing approximately 100 decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU with a direct
reference to the Fundamental Rights Charter and more than 500 decisions forming national
leading case law from all EU member states in the area of anti-discrimination law. The data
include a formal reference to the decisions, judgments and opinions, an abstract in English,
and if available a link to the full text document.
EC Consumer Law Compendium (http://www.eu-consumer-law.org)
www.eu-consumer-law.org is a web site providing free access to expert information on eight
consumer law directives, their transposition into the laws of 27 EU Member States, including
case-law, bibliography and a comparative study. The database is an output of a research
project called "EC Consumer Law Compendium", which is being conducted by an
international research group on behalf of the European Commission since 2004. The web
site contents cover eight directives, namely:
 the Doorstep Selling Directive 85/577
 the Package Travel Directive 90/314
 the Unfair Contract Terms Directive 93/13
 the Timeshare Directive, 2008/122/EC (according to the prevailing state of
transposition in the Member States, otherwise Directive 94/47/EC)
 the Distance Selling Directive 97/7
 the Price Indication Directive 98/6
 the Injunctions Directive 98/27 and
 the Consumer Sales Directive 99/44.
The EU materials and the annotations made by the contributors to the database are provided
in English, French and German languages. Case law about the above listed directives can
be found by directive, date, court type, keyword or a Member State. In January 2008 a
follow-up project called "Update of the EU Consumer Law Acquis Database" started to keep
the database up-to-date. In 2008 more than 130 acts and statutes have been updated.
Moreover, about 150 new judgements have been collected and inserted into the database.
The follow-up project was completed in the first quarter of 2012. Therefore the Database
contains information on the transposition of the above Directives into all 27 EU Member
States as of March 2012.
Commercial services
The huge investment costs for digitalisation of legal archive materials, data processing,
consolidation, case summarisation, etc. of national legislation and case law have prevented
the development of multilingual and cross-border legal information services in the early years
of the creation of legal databases. The first viable international commercial services in this
field emerged in the 1990s and the first decade of 21st century simultaneously with the
imposition of the Internet as a global medium. In the common law countries their appearance
was connected with the rise of the “Big Three” – Thomson Reuters (Westlaw), Reed Elsevier
25
http://infoportal.fra.europa.eu/InfoPortal/caselawFrontEndAccess.do?homePage=yes.
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(LexisNexis) and Wolters Kluwer who created a variety of cross-border legal information
products and services for the English-speaking world. In Europe, additional impetus for
developing such contents was given with the establishment of the European Union and
increasingly intense process of harmonization of national law of Member States with EU law.
Nowadays, there are a number of commercial Pan-European cross-border legal databases.
Next to the multinational legal contents of the Big Three, some other innovative international
services like vLex and Darts-IP have gained success in the recent years. In the following we
present them briefly.
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters is a multinational corporation created by the purchase of the British-based
Reuters Group from the Canadian content provider Thomson Corporation in 2008. The
company is operating in more than 100 countries, and has more than 60 000 employees.
One of the five divisions of the firm is in the field of legal information provision, famous with
the world-leading brand Westlaw, an online legal research services ensuring access to more
than 40 000 databases with U.S. state and federal statutes, case law, administrative codes,
public records, law journals, legal forms and other value added information.
In Europe Thomson Reuters is operating through Ellis Publications based in the Netherlands,
Sweet & Maxwell and Lawtel in the United Kingdom and Thomson Reuters Round Hall in
Ireland.
Ellis Publications is claimed to be the global leader in EU law. It provides online
services offering EU law materials in English (OJ OnlinePlus), Dutch (EU Recht OnlinePlus)
and French (Droit UE Online). However, the service which is combining cross-border legal
contents with EU relevance from the Member States is “EU Competition Law Online”. This
service (in English only) provides access to full official EU competition materials and the
leading commentary modules from Sweet & Maxwell including EU Competition Law
Handbook and Rowley & Baker's International Mergers – The Antitrust Process. The
Handbook is actually an expert guide to EU and national competition law cases. The Rowley
& Baker module, known as the ‘Bible’ for international antitrust lawyers contains expert
explanations of merger regulations in nearly 50 countries.26
Another product with cross-border legal contents is “European Current Law” provided by
Sweet & Maxwell. It covers European Union case law, legislation and its implementation by
Member States. It also reports on the most important national and international material from
all other European countries, both East and West. Extensive coverage provided by a team of
practising lawyers and academics monitoring over 120 published sources each month.
However, the product is available only on paper – as a monthly journal or a hardback. The
same is valid also for EU the Competition Law Handbook (see previous paragraph) and the
Fleet Street Reports: Cases on Intellectual Property Law.
The most prominent service of Thomson Reuters offering cross-border legal information from
various jurisdictions in the world is Westlaw International.27 This online service provides
simultaneous access to the tens of thousands databases of Thomson Reuters’ subsidiaries
throughout the world. Legislation, case law, law reviews, treaties, news and business
information from US, Canada, EU, UK, Hong Kong and Australia are combined in a global
library. European legal contents are presented by the legal resources of Sweet & Maxwell
and Ellis Publications, including the above discussed cross-border legal information services
and products.
26
See the brief presentation of the service at:
http://www.ellispub.com/tl_files/downloads/commentary_introduction.pdf.
27
http://westlawinternational.com.
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Reed Elsevier
Reed Elsevier is a publisher and information provider operating in the science, medical,
legal, risk and business sectors with headquarters in London and Amsterdam. The company
is operating in more than 30 countries, and has more than 30 000 employees. Its most
famous brand in the field of legal information provision is LexisNexis. In Europe LexisNexis is
presented with subsidiaries in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. Despite this significant presence in Europe
LexiNexis does not offer any substantial cross-border legal contents. Its subsidiaries in the
respective countries remain keen on offering only national and (in most cases) EU legal
contents from EUR-Lex.
There are only two services ensuring access to European multinational legal contents: EU
Tracker and Juris Classeur.
EU Tracker is a comprehensive web-based product that tracks implementation of key
European Union directives across 12 practice areas.28 The tracking includes monitoring by
“Traffic light” and alerting system of the implementation, coupled with analysis by a team of
EU law specialists from UK, Germany, France, Spain and Poland. The expert contents
deliver a general overview of a Directive plus specific country information focused on key
date-by-date analysis charting progress towards implementation.
Juris Classeur is a French-language legal research online database including legislation,
jurisprudence and journals from France, Belgium and Luxembourg.29 The service provides
access to more than 35 000 laws and regulations, 1.2 million decisions and more than 130
journals with 150 000 bibliographic records. However, EU legislation and case law is not
included. The product is also available in print and on CD-ROM.
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer is a global information services and publishing company based in the
Netherlands with operations across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and Latin America
and employing more than 18 000 people worldwide. The company provides products and
services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal
and regulatory sectors.
In the field of legal information services Wolters Kluwer has an impressive presence in
Europe – the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, UK (tax and accounting
regulations only), Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary. The company has developed also a
number of products and services offering international legal contents. Most of them are
produced by Kluwer Law International, part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. 30 They
offered through the Kluwer Law Online platform for journals and loosleafs/manuals. The paid
online access is ensured on a subscription base or at journal article/looseleaf chapter level
provided as searchable PDFs. Kluwer Law Online Manuals contain authoritative and up-todate country-by-country overviews in a specific area of European / international law. Here we
will list only some of them: European Air Law, European Direct Taxation, Handbook of EU
VAT Legislation, European Environmental Law, Customs Law of the EU, IEL (International
Encyclopaedia for) Private International Law, IEL Competition Law, IEL Intellectual Property,
IEL Commercial and Economic Law, a. o. Kluwer Law Online Journals offer users who are
not subscribers quick and easy to browse the journal contents and to purchase individual
articles. The articles provide expert commentaries and surveys of EU and national legislation
28
See http://internationalsales.lexisnexis.com/pdf/EuTracker-brochure.pdf.
29
See http://internationalsales.lexisnexis.com/english-is/products/juris-classeur.page.
30
See http://www.kluwerlaw.com and http://www.kluwerlawonline.com.
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and case law in a specific legal area addressed by the respective journal. The most
important journals connected with EU law and its implementation in the Member States are:
EC Tax Review, European Business Law Review, European Company Law, European
Energy and Environmental Law Review, European Foreign Affairs Review, European Public
Law and European Review of Private Law.
Specialised online platforms are developed in the field of international commercial
arbitration,31 international intellectual property law32 and international competition law.33
Finally, we can conclude that the despite its presence in most EU Member States Wolters
Kluwer does not offer a common database with national legislation, case law and other legal
materials. The elaborated legal products and services in the field of European and
international law are based predominantly on research materials and expert overviews
written by authoritative legal correspondents from the respective countries, and therefore
contain only a limited selection of national case law digests.
vLex
vLex is a Spanish company with headquarters in Barcelona founded in 1998. Based on legal
materials from the Spanish-speaking community, soon it turned into a global legal
information provider. Currently, the online search platform vLex offers legal contents from
more than 130 countries and 1140 publishers around the globe. Next to the usual for legal
information providers production of own value added legal contents, the business model of
vLex includes direct integration of official public resources and conclusion of licensing
agreements with legal publishers for revenue sharing. Thus its database covers legislation,
case law, books, journals, articles, forms, contracts, news and other legal materials from
various national and international jurisdictions (e.g. EU legislation and case law).
Despite the impressive global content coverage, incl. EU legal materials, the vLex service
reveals some serious gaps when it is examined for completeness country by country. For
instance, the French case law is presented only by decisions of the Supreme Court of
Cassation, the German – by cases of the Federal Constitutional Court, the Austrian – by
decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court. For some countries, such as
Bulgaria, there is even no case law included. Another disadvantage of the service is the lack
of legal links between connected data resources.
Darts-ip
Darts-ip34 is a global intellectual property case law online database maintained by the
homonymous company based in Brussels. It is updated daily and currently has over 1 350
000 cases from over 2 600 courts worldwide. Each individual decision is analysed locally by
trade mark, patent, design or domain name specialists and classified according to a “points
of law” hierarchical classification structure. Cases are collected predominantly from
European jurisdictions, but also from the United States, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, India,
China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. The European contents cover case law of the
Court of Justice of the EU and of most national jurisdictions as follows:
 Trademark focused cases – over 307 000 decisions from 722 courts in 32 European
countries;
 Patent focused cases – over 155 800 decisions from 422 courts in 23 European
countries;
31
http://www.kluwerarbitration.com.
32
http://www.kluweriplaw.com.
33
http://www.kluwercompetitionlaw.com.
34
http://www.darts-ip.com/world.
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 Design focused cases – over 9 900 decisions from 355 courts in 26 European
countries;
 Domain names focused cases – over 30 800 decisions from 349 courts in 31
European countries.
The success of the Darts-ip service was recently recognised by Thomson Reuters. In May
2012 Thomson CompuMark, part of the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson
Reuters and one of the global leaders in trademark searching and brand protection solutions,
announced a partnership with Darts-ip which will allow the customers of the SERION Search
Analysis and Watch tools of Thomson CompuMark to conveniently access case law
information of Darts-ip as a seamless part of their workflow.35
35
http://trademarks.thomsonreuters.com/resources-amp-training/news/press-releases?id=resources%2Fmay-72012-thomson-reuters-provide-trademark-professionals-insightful-darts-ip-case-law-in.
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3
Exploitation of project outcomes
The project will develop tools and services which can be divided in three groups: (a)
deliverables and tools made freely available to the public; (b) tools and services to be
exploited commercially by consortium partners; and (c) tools and services to be exploited by
consortium partners for non-commercial (e.g. academic) purposes.
The main outcomes of EUCases include:
1. EUCases legal linked open dataset

Snapshot publication of the EUCases data collection
2. EUCases Linking Platform

Web interface querying the Platform
3. ConsumerCases Web Application
4. EULinksChecker Add-in Tools
The consortium will ensure free public access, i.e. the complete source code and/or
documentation, of the following deliverables/tools:

Legal XML-schema (XSD);

Crawlers framework and tools;

EULinksChecker Add-ins;

Framework for linking tools;

Eurovoc indexation and classification tool.
This means that all important results which are not commercialised by project partners will be
made available as open source or free-/ shareware. All these software/techniques will be
provided with adequate documentation and packaging as to facilitate their usage by others.
(Documentation manual will be part of all OS deliverables).
The EUCases Linking Platform will be exploited for non-commercial purposes by all partners
in the consortium. In the same time it will servce as foundation of the EUCases online legal
information service to be further developed and exploited commercially by APIS.
The ConsumerCases application will be exploited commercially mainly by partners APIS and
Nomotika. The various software tools developed within the project, such as the linking tools,
LT2XML conversion tools (incl. OS tools), will also be exploited by these partners after the
end of the project.
Contentwise, the deliverable covers topics that are relevant to both the commercial and noncommercial exploitation activities to different degrees. The figure below illustrates the content
that will be generated for the final exploitation report (D6.7) and how it relates to the goals of
the two groups.
While all partners will benefit from the exploitation activities foreseen in EUCases, special
attention will be given to the aspects that are of interest for commercial pursuits.
Infrastructure and costs, and possible revenue streams will help to illustrate the financial view
of the business model. Other elements of the model are useful for the entire consortium,
such as the market analysis, the identified customer segments, the channels used to reach
them, etc. Lessons learned from previous projects, in particular Caselex, will also help to
avoid bad decisions and shorten the modelling time by concentrating on finding solutions.
Although this deliverable is intended as an update of the planned exploitation activities in the
project, a significant amount of work has already been performed to ensure that WP6 is
going according to schedule. For example, the market analysis as part of the business
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modelling has been elaborated by researching competitors and possible partners in the world
of publishing of legal data in Europe coming from Germany, Italy, France, the UK and
Bulgaria (see chapter 2, annex 3). Similarly, customers have been identified and validated
through the survey conducted as part of WP1. As a next step, the remaining aspects of the
business modelling and exploitation activities will be outlined together with a comprehensive
timeline (see chapter 4).
Exhibit 9: Planning D6.7 – an overview
Commercial exploitation
Non-commercial exploitation
Lessons learned from Caselex
SWOT analyses
Business Modelling
Value propositions
Market analysis
Customer analysis
Distribution channels
Partnerships
Infrastructure & Costs
Revenue Streams
D6.7 EUCases exploitation planning report
Commercial & Non-commercial exploitation report
3.1
Commercial exploitation
APIS and Nomotika are two legal knowledge providers that differ in their focus but are both
interested in the same market.
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APIS distributes web-based legal information to a large market in Bulgaria.
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Nomotika – a spinoff of the University of Torino (UNITO) – uses advanced technologies
to provide high quality ontology-based legal information in the niche market of
compliance in the Italian banking industry.
Both SMEs aim to develop new high-tech services for navigating case law, collecting
expertise and, at the same time, acquiring components in NLP to improve productivity in
creating knowledge for existing services that are costly and time consuming.
The third SME in the project consortium, Averbis, is a software development company
specialising in linguistic and semantic technologies for different knowledge management
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applications. The project will strengthen their software portfolio. They expect to acquire new
competences in the processing of legal information so that they can enter new market
segments.
At this stage the following options for commercial exploitation of project results are
considered by APIS:
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EUCases online legal information service – it will build on the software tools and
the linked open data set of the EUCases Linking Platform and to some extent on the
software and functionality of the ConsumerCases application
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Data delivery services for public bodies or e-publishers of specialised, sectororiented legal information
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ConsumerCases web application – it provides access to a multilingual collection of
national court decisions linked with EU and national legislation and doctrine in the
area of consumer protection law. The application will offer its users a range of
features via a multilingual interface, including: browsing legislation and case law by
subject (keywords), type of documents, country and jurisdiction; searching via a
variety of complex search queries; viewing legal documents and extracting
knowledge, via well-structured and interlinked texts which allow users, for instance, to
easily retrieve a list of all referring court decisions to a given provision without losing
the context.
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EULinksChecker add-in tools – it interactively assists legal professionals while
editing or browsing documents by identifying and establishing connections with
regulations and legal ontologies, helping to clarify the meaning of the document, and
making its terminology more uniform. The EULinksChecker is developed as a series
of installable add-in applications (connected via the internet to the EUCases Linking
Platform), which can be integrated in the most popular software products, e.g.
Internet Explorer™, Firefox™, Google Chrome™, Microsoft Word™, Open Office
Writer™ and Adobe Reader™.
NOMOTIKA is currently considering whether its legal repository menslegis oriented to
regulatory compliance will benefit from further enrichment of its content scope with EU and
EU related legal materials (EU legal instruments, case law of the Court of Justice of the EU
and case law of the Italian courts related to the application of EU law).
Depending on results of a more detailed market analysis and assessment of business
opportunities and risks, in particular estimates of required effort in establishing sales and
marketing channels, AVERBIS is interested to explore commercial exploitation options
including joint ventures where it would be acting as a technology provider. AVERBIS could
consider developing a tool based on EUCases LinksChecker for use by the government to
allow courts to publish their data as Linked Open Data with established links to German case
law.
The main value proposition of the EUCases online legal information service (“EUCases
service”) will be ensuring online access to national case law related to the application of EU
law. Unlike the ConsumerCases web application the EUCases service will not be limited in
its contents to a specific area of law. The decision to rely on broader contents scope of the
service is motivated by the results of the EUCases survey. The survey conducted in WP1
showed that the most interesting areas of law for the users of cross-border legal information
services include:
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private international law
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tax law
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judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters
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competition law, and
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human rights law.
Furthermore, functionalities ensuring links from national to EU legal documents and vice
versa are considered crucial for the majority of users of cross-border legal information
services.
Following these and other insights derived from the survey and the interviews with potential
users, the EUCases service has been defined as follows:
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Content scope determining the main value proposition:
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National case-law related to the application of EU law
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All areas of EU law should be covered
o
National legislation should be excluded, because it is not fully available as
open data in some EU countries (e.g. Germany)
o
EU legislation should be available in full text to support extensive search
facilities and to help users to easily and quickly consult the text of EU
provisions cited in case-law
Value added features:
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Each court decision should be supplied by metadata, links to relevant EU
provisions, a headnote and/or summary produced by a legal expert and
classified from him/her according to a common classification scheme.
Notwithstanding the significant differences in content scope and functionality, the EUCases
service will be more or less similar to the Caselex service which was ceased in 2010. Given
the fact that the EU-funded Caselex service in which partner APIS was involved failed to
achieve commercial sustainability the commercial partners are committed to analyse and
avoid the mistakes made. The Caselex service was developed as a typical legal knowledge
database with very high operating costs for maintaining and updating the system contents.
This was an inevitable consequence of:
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Broad content coverage – case law of all MSs plus some of the EFTA countries;
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High level of production costs for content delivery by legal professionals – cases were
selected from national legal correspondents producing case summaries in native
language and in English.
The high operating costs resulted in extremely expensive pricing policy: €5,700 for office
license and €1,150 for individual professional license. Given the fact that Caselex service
was intended and therefore not able to substitute the traditional domestic legal information
products, this pricing policy was inadequate of the market conditions, especially after the
outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2008. All these circumstances lead to ceasing of the
content updates of Caselex service after the financing under the eTen programme had come
to an end.
The commercial partners in EUCases, APIS in particular, are aiming at a totally different
business model. Legal data will be sourced from open data portals which provide either free
access or access on reasonable prices to their data sets. After the initial investment costs for
development of crawlers, XML-parsers, linking tools, NLP tools and all other tools foreseen
within the project framework, the whole production process and the regular updates of the
contents will be almost fully automated. This will allow reducing significantly the operating
costs after the project. Nevertheless, a number of extra value added features (headnotes,
metadata, links, key terms and classification headings) need to be elaborated with the help of
legal experts next to those developed within the project work (which was explicitly
recommended by the members of the Advisory Board) in order to make the difference
between free access to open data and fee-based online service.
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The content coverage of the EUCases service will be limited to the case law of the four
biggest, richest and most populated Member States – Germany, France, Italy and the United
Kingdom (these four countries account for more than half of the EU population), and two
smaller Member States – Austria and Bulgaria. The language coverage is also conformed to
the idea to address less, but broader markets – four of the five project languages (English,
German, French and Italian) are the most widely spoken languages among legal
professionals in Europe; in fact, legal professionals dealing in cross-border issues tend to
have good command of two or three of these languages. However, some peripheral increase
of the above defined core content scope is not only possible, but even recommendable. For
instance, the case law in French language of the supreme courts of Belgium and
Luxembourg could also be incorporated within the service. The importance of the case law of
the European Courts of Human Rights (despite the fact that formally it is not part of EU law)
was clearly indicated by the respondents of the EUCases’ survey. Case law of other EU
Member States might be included in the commercial service to the extent it is referenced in
free databases or online resources (such as the Jure database of the EC) and supplied with
metadata and summaries in English, French and/or German languages.
Next to national case law, the EUCases service will ensure its’ users access to EU legislation
in full text so that they do not need to leave the context of their research on national case law
in order to consult the text of the referenced EU provisions in another information system.
This approach will guarantee the integrity of the service as an EU legal information service in
its entirety. The following diagram represents the planned content scope of the EUCases
service:
Exhibit 10: Planned content scope of the EUCases service
Unlike EUCases service, the ConsumerCases web application will include national legislation
of the selected 6 EU Member States. Maintaining a multilingual cross-border service
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containing legislation of several countries is a great challenge and entails considerable risks.
This was the reason why the ConsumerCases service was limited to one specific and
relatively narrow area of EU law. However, at the First Expert Workshop in Torino it became
clear that the EC intends to update the present out-of-date online service EC Consumer Law
Compendium (http://www.eu-consumer-law.org/index_en.cfm) and to embed it in the eJustice portal. This will make it more challenging for EUCases partners to exploit the
ConsumerCases web application commercially as it will face “competition” of a free of charge
service from a highly authoritative source. One way to address this challenge was already
described above and is being followed by APIS – to develop the EUCases online legal
information service which will abandon the idea for integration of national legislation, but at
the same time will broaden the content scope of the service to all areas of EU law addressed
by national case law. Another approach that could be applied simultaneously and
independently from the first is to extend the content scope of the ConsumerCases web
application to legal matters that are not covered by the EC Consumer Law Compendium,
such as health, food, animals, and plants. The main disadvantage in this case is connected
again with the integration of national legislation and identification of legal references to it.
Therefore the partners should discuss the possibility and try to get feedback from users
whether the service would be still useful if it does not contain the full texts of national legal
instruments, but only provide links to their official versions on the national public legal portals.
The EULinksChecker add-in tools are designed to have twofold application. On the one
hand, they are end-user software tools integrated into the most popular browsers, editors
and PDF-viewers that interactively assist legal professionals in their research by identifying
and establishing links between EU legislation, EU case law and national case law. In order to
be fully functional these tools should also be able to establish links to national legal
instruments, a task which is outside the scope of the EUCases project. However, the
commercial partners in the project APIS and NOMOTIKA as well as the research partner
UNITO have the knowledge and tools for identification of such links to Bulgarian, respectively
Italian legislation, which makes it possible to introduce the EULinksChecker add-in tools at
least on the Bulgarian and the Italian legal information markets. In particular APIS is planning
to distribute the EULinksChecker as an extra value added tool among its customers in
Bulgaria. On the other hand, EULinksChecker add-in tools can be exploited by data
publishers and data re-users (such as public institutions, non-governmental organisations
and private companies) when using their second valuable feature – conversion of plain legal
texts to legal linked open data in XML format. For instance, courts may use these tools for
publishing their case law as linked open data.
Based on the same idea, but tailored to the particular customer needs, will be the option (still
in conceptual stage) to provide data delivery services to public bodies or e-publishers of
sector-oriented legal information. Clients of such service could be publishers specialised in a
specific area of knowledge (e.g. foods, beverages, medicinal products, pharmaceutical
drugs, etc.) who have very limited experience in publishing legal documents electronically
and would prefer to outsource this activity. The data to be provided will be an extract from the
EUCases legal linked open data set. In all cases, however, the data delivery service cannot
be offered as standardised package and should be negotiated and tuned to the specific
customer requirements.
The above described commercial services are scalable, especially with respect to their
content scope. For instance, if proved to be commercially viable and successful, the
EUCases Linking Platform and the services based on it can be further enriched with new
legal open data sets from other Member States. Such decision could be taken about 12
months after their launch on the market depending on the sales results achieved to that
specific moment. They will influence also the decision which data sets from which countries
will be next choice.
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3.2
Non-commercial exploitation
IICT-BAS will benefit from the transfer of their knowledge to industry, deepening their
cooperation with industry and collecting new requirements and research problems. In this
aspect, the institute will be able to make its academic approaches more suitable to industry
after applying its technology in a real business scenario framework. Since IICT-BAS has at
in-house disposal Smart Labs (speech recognition and generation, GRID, etc.) and Smart
Peripheries (3D printer, tomography, etc), it plans to serve as a provider of modern services
to companies and academic institutions in the respective economic segments (including law
services), ensuring efficiency and handling of big data. More specifically IICT-BAS will exploit
the results from the project in the following paradigms:
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At the moment IICT-BAS has developed ontologies in IT and Interior Design domains,
augmented with respective lexicons in several languages. It has also expertise in
Medical domain. After adding the EUCases law ontology with the mapped lexicons, it
will be able to build a multidomain semantic platform, which to be made public for
wide range of interested users. In this platform the users will be able to search for
data, to extract data and to summarize data. This will be done also via the channels
of CLARIN-ERIC (http://clarin.eu/) language technology infrastructure, of which IICTBAS is the Bulgarian Coordinator.
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The EUCases technology and data outcome will serve as a benchmark for developing
integrated user platforms for other domains as well, since it will provide all the
synergies among technology and data components in several languages. In this way,
the provided services will be able to be measured, adapted and made faster and of
high quality with respect to the user requirements.
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IICT-BAS will include law domain (in addition to political domain) in its research of
tendencies and opinion mining. In this way the attitude of the users towards the
provided content and services will be also registered, studied, reported with the idea
to be improved and made even more relevant to them.
Averbis will strengthen the expertise in a so far not concerned knowledge area, i.e.
processing legal information. A set of technological components and tools are reused and
adopted to cover this new domain. On the other hand, newly invented technologies (software
components) and knowledge sources (ontologies, dictionaries etc.) within the project may
serve as the starting point for the transfer of knowledge to the other domains, e.g. the
recognition of citations in texts, giving one example. The integration of software components
(provided by the partners) into the framework that is used by Averbis is also a valuable
experience for the future activities.
Nomotika - The main target of Nomotika is the research and development of ICT products
and services for the legal domain. So, the attendance to EUCases project is consistent with
its purposes.
Nomotika will benefit from EUCases both improving its expertise in projects concerning
innovative solutions based on legal open data, and getting a deeper cooperation with Unito
and academic partners to push knowledge transfer towards its clients.
Particularly, Nomotika's expected benefits will be:
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Bring to fruition specialized market analysis focused on innovative IT legal services in
European scenario;
Improving synergies between Nomotika and international academics, lawyers,
partners, thanks also periodic experts workshop meetings and conferences;
Help in building of one of biggest case law multilingual repository in European
scenario;
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Participate in one of first applied research project focused on new ontological
approaches to manage legal knowledge on European Consumer Case Law;
New planning for future cooperation between international partners;
Testing of EUCases technologies and tools (crawlers, linkers, legal2XML, etc.);
Increasing of its internal skills on international collaborative projects.
Also UNITO will benefit from the transfer of their knowledge to industry, deepening their
cooperation with industry and collecting new requirements and research problems. The
cooperation will open the possibility for new projects proposals on Horizon 2020 calls. The
topic of EUCases is at the core of the research groups involved and the University is partner
of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Law, Science and Technology and PhD thesis
proposals on the topics of the project will be proposed to students.
In particular:
1) The huge wealth of legal documents collected by the project will constitute a corpus
for further linguistic analysis. For example, the collection of case law will be used for
extraction of features of cases. Moreover, the fact that all the legislation is structured
in XML and the references are identified makes it possible to apply network analysis
to the resulting hypertext. For example, this could be used to develop further
commercial services for suggesting which are the most cited cases and in which role
they are cited.
2) The EUROVOC thesaurus is increasingly supported by the EU for labeling
documents. Also Italian institutions are interested in this classification and the
EUROVOC automatic classifier developed in the project can be of help in labeling the
documents. Contacts are in progress with the Istituto Poligrafico Zecca dello Stato
which is running the Normattiva portal and the Official Gazzette and with the Regional
Council running the Arianna portal on local legislation, which already uses the legal
XML format.
3) The ontology of EU consumer law refined in the project will be the basis for further
initiatives, such as proposals on future e-justice calls in collaboration with the Cour de
Cassation of France (who attended the expert workshop in Torino).
4) More in general the Natural Language Processing tools developed and integrated in
the project will be of help for the research in UNITO.
For empirica, the participation in EUCases has allowed for extending the company’s
portfolio of research topics. While empirica has dealt with some projects that make use of
ontologies, they have all been in the eHealth domain. The relevance and application of
ontologies and neuro-linguistic programming are topics empirica is involved with and will
possibly benefit from in future related projects. Furthermore, the domain of legal data
combined with the world of semantic web is seen as a new addition to the company’s
portfolio of projects. Through its work in WP6, the company is also making a big step into
business model design and its application to SMEs like APIS, and will gather valuable
information with regard to facilitating innovative ideas and guiding companies throughout the
business model development process.
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4
Plan for business model generation
Generating a business model and formulating a business plan in EUCases requires close
collaboration between the companies offering value and the business model developer. Both
sides have valuable information that needs to come together and connect into a solid case,
which will be reported as part of D6.7.
On the one side, the business model canvas must be used in a meaningful way in order to
come up with a sustainable and well defined business model. Experience in its application is
therefore a core requirement. Continuous improvement is also a must, as the model cannot
be developed in just one intensive working session. Appropriate methods and helping
materials such as templates need to be prepared and used to ensure a smooth process.
Multiple meetings need to be planned and prepared for.
These tasks of the business model developer are assumed by empirica as a consultancy
company with experience in using the Business Model Canvas in multiple other projects for
the European Commission, such as HeartCycle36, TEN-HMS37, SemanticHealthNet38, VPHShare39, MobilAlarm40, and VPHOP41.
On the other side, the model needs to be fed with relevant information coming from the
company or companies that are going to offer value to their customers. Guided by the
business model developer, they need to identify their strengths and weaknesses, as well as
use opportunities and avoid threats to offer their customers value for their money that can be
provided in a sustainable way. Simulation of the possible costs and benefits of this value can
help to explore different opportunities of providing it, e.g. different channels, different cost
structures, etc.
In the following, the methods used to generate the business model and plan in EUCases as
well as the necessary materials and templates are described, followed by a timeline of key
actions to be taken to ensure the objectives of WP6 will be met in time, on budget and in the
required quality.
4.1
Methods
The development of the business model requires collaboration between the developer and
the companies that will exploit it, as already mentioned. Therefore, the methods used in
EUCases include workshops, group meetings and teleconference sessions. Desk research
is, of course, an integral part of any analysis, for example, with the market and customer
investigation.
4.1.1 Desk research
The availability of information about the current legal market in Europe, as well as the actors
involved (competitors, users of the services, etc.) helps to create a better model that is
tailored to their different expectations and also ensures that the model will not exclude
relevant aspects. Desk research is needed to support these activities. Already some work
has been done to analyse the possible customers (section 2.1), and further steps are
undertaken to explore the competitive landscape and seek possible partnerships with other
companies (sections 2.2 and 2.3). The questionnaire used as part of WP1 activities
36
http://www.heartcycle.eu/
37
http://www.empirica.com/themen/telemedizin/documents/TEN-HMSUlm_2001.pdf
38
http://www.semantichealthnet.eu/
39
http://www.vph-share.eu/
40
http://www.mobilalarm-eu.org/
41
http://www.vphop.eu/
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addressed to lawyers in Europe also provides valuable insight into the expectations of the
end-users that allow for adjusting the services while they are still being developed. The
survey included 95 participants from five countries: Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, and the
UK. Participants were legal and other professionals who may be the target of the proposed
services (32% in-house lawyers, 26% lawyers, 8% law scholars, 6% compliance managers,
5% finance and accounting experts, 4% judges). More details on the survey’s results,
revelatory in terms of legal professionals’ needs, are found in WP 1.1, and will not be
reported here.
4.1.2 Workshop(s), group meetings and conference
sessions
In order to elaborate a business model (and possibly business models), a workshop will be
organized in Sofia in September 2014. During the first day, interviews with customers of
APIS will be conducted to align the value proposition with the expectations and needs of the
end users. On the second day, APIS representatives will sit together to brainstorm the other
elements of the business model. An ideal outcome of the workshop would be a fully
described model using the nine building blocks of the Business Model Canvas, which can be
tested on financial viability using a cost-benefit analysis/simulation.
Group meetings and conference sessions are scheduled at regular occurrences in order to
have partners discussing all stages of the project.
4.2
Preparatory input
Helping materials are used to facilitate the business model generation process. Ready-to-use
templates help to focus on the content without having to think about style and formatting. The
templates used for the process model development include a SWOT template, the Canvas
itself, as well as table of contents with descriptions for the business plan.
4.2.1 SWOT
A first SWOT analysis has been done for partner APIS which plans to exploit the EUCases
commercially. The analysis provides valuable information that can be used in the business
model design. For example, the strengths mentioned can be used to better formulate the
value propositions, while the weaknesses can be addressed early on and their effects
reduced by taking appropriate actions. Similarly, the identified opportunities open up new
horizons that need to be taken into account when developing a business model, and possible
threads need to be further discussed.
The results of APIS’ SWOT analysis concerning the commercial exploitation of the EUCases
online legal information service (see section 3.1) can be seen below. They will be used
especially during the foreseen workshop in Bulgaria in the autumn of 2014.
Strengths
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Pan-European cross-border service – Despite the fact that the scope of the EUCases
service will cover mainly contents from a few EU Member States, it can be sold within the
whole Union (in rare cases even in non-EU countries).
Unique service – there are several non-commercial services offering to some extent
similar contents based on the same idea, but in general EUCases is a unique service
Subsidiary service – this is simultaneously strength and weakness. Strength, because
EUCases will be a supplementary service building upon the services provided by the
national legal information providers. This means that it will not directly compete with
them, but rather complement them. Its goal is not to substitute existing legal information
solutions (almost impossible task). Weakness, because it will not be a vital (“sine qua
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non”) service for lawyers. It could be characterised rather as “nice to have” than “must
have” service.
Weaknesses
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Language barrier – the understanding of legal contents in a foreign language is
extremely difficult even if one has good command of this language. The next problem is
that most users would speak just one other foreign language which makes a significant
part of the service useless.
Relatively limited target audience – most judges and lawyers are dealing with cases
regulated exclusively by national legislation which is the first limitation of the target user
group. The second one are the language skills – only few of those who are dealing with
cases regulated by EU law will have good command of one of the languages of the
service so that they will be interested in case law available in such a language. The third
one are some prejudices against using case law of foreign countries. Many legal
professionals share the opinion that this is “nonsense”, because foreign case law has no
legal value.
“Ad hoc” need for the service – even representatives of the limited target audience of
the EUCases service do not need this service on a regular basis. They will use with “ad
hoc” when such an EU related case arises, because most of their cases will be purely
“national”.
Secondary, subsidiary service – already discussed above
Limited content scope – national legislation will not be included so far. Court decisions
from other countries will be included in exceptional cases only. The same is valid for
cases of lower instance courts. Some older cases are missing, because they are not
publicly available as open data and can be found in private databases only. Lack of
commentaries.
Lack of experience in marketing abroad – the commercial partners in the consortium
do not have any experience in marketing services abroad.
Opportunities
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EU-wide market – theoretically the service has the potential to enter the legal
information market in every EU member state.
Growing market potential with deepening of the European integration – the
experience from the last decades clearly proves that European integration is one-way
road. More and more areas of social life are regulated by EU law. The process of
deepening of EU integration inevitably will further increase the need for Pan-European
cross-border legal information services.
Extensible and scalable service – if becoming successful and self-supporting, the
service can be enriched in contents and functionality and/or become the ground for the
development of a number of other value added cross-border services in specific areas of
law (e.g. the contents can be enriched with cases from other countries, cases of lower
instance courts, national legislation, commentaries, etc. The extension of the content
scope can be realised either in horizontal, i.e. enrichment of the service content scope
and functionalities, or in vertical direction, i.e. launch of new derivative branch services).
Threads
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UK leaves the EU.
“The Big Three” or influential national legal publishers (such as C.H.Beck, Juris) will
decide to enter the EUCases niche.
EU institutions (e.g. the EC, Court of Justice of the EU or other) with the cooperation of
the MSs will develop a free of charge service.
Problems may arise with personal data included in the judgments.
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4.2.2 Business Model Canvas
The Business Model Canvas can be printed on paper and used in workshops to describe
new and talk about existing models. By making use of Post-It notes to identify the main
elements involved in the business model, the canvas can be very easily modified and
updated just by sticking and removing the notes.
The Canvas consists of nine building blocks. A first analysis of these has provided the
following considerations:
Customer segments: There is a broad market for this service, and potential customers of
the service fit into two categories: legal professionals (judges and court staff, barristers and
solicitors, in-house legal counsel, public prosecutors, policy makers, legal information
managers, paralegals, legal researchers, academics and law students, lawyers, legislators,
scholars, compliance managers, association of law practitioners) and legal information
providers or publishers which aim at redistributing the Linked Open Data enriched by the
platform, subject to suitable licensing terms. For a detailed breakdown of envisioned
EUCases customers, see section 2.1 of this document.
Value proposition: legal professionals (judges and court staff, barristers and solicitors, inhouse legal counsel, policy makers and legislators, legal information managers, paralegals,
academics, legislators, compliance managers, etc.) operating in Europe are increasingly
required to access case law in the different member states of the EU to carry out their work.
Services offered by EUCases Linking platform will provide relatively simple but ever reliable
access to all or special kinds of legal information as required for all or special kinds of legal
disputes; comprehensive data, completely covering either all fields of law or, at least, those
selected according to practical relevance in terms of frequently in demand, or sums of
dispute, or most recently coming into force, etc. The proposed services transform multilingual
legal open data into linked open data after semantic and structural analysis to improve their
usability and retrieval. The platform also allows a dramatic reduction in the time employed for
manual searches of relevant legal materials.
The service will capitalize on usability: it will be easy to understand and operate, matching
established research patterns of legal professionals, and designed to quickly access (and
download) required data but also to avoid inadvertent errors. In addition, services will be
uninterrupted, and come along with strong technical back-up. The service shall also be
complete and immediate, and allow for comprehensive, flawless and seamless storage of
data; and for fast updating. Finally, correctness and security of data are also fortes of the
platform: only accurate data will be accessible, and the system will operate in a risk-free
operational environment with regard to all kinds of network threats and dangers, as well as
privacy requirements.
Customer relationship: the idea that seems to best fit EUCases services is to use a
freemium strategy, i.e. to combine free trial with ad hoc paid service and subscription-based
service. For example, the platform could offer free trial with limitations of the content that
could be accessed (e.g. a 14-days free trial allowing the user to open and view up to 20
documents) and a time-limited paid service with full access to all contents (e.g. 1-day, 7-days
or 30-days access). This flexible approach (1-year paid subscription + short-time access to
the service + free 14-day trial to limited content and, possibly, functionality) seems to be
much more adequate to the user requirements than the rather traditional service based only
on the 1-year subscription model.
Channels: the main channel through which services will be offered and provided is the
EUCases Linking platform, which will be hosted by a dedicated website. Pan-European legal
websites such as EUR-Lex, and their national equivalent Legifrance (FR), legislation.gov.uk
(UK), Supreme Court (UK), Bundesgerichtshof (DE), Gesetze im internet (DE),
Rechtsinformationssystem (AT), Supreme Court of Cassation (BG), Supreme Administrative
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Court (BG), Consiglio di Stato (IT), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) will be linked
by the EUCases’ website.
Key resources: the service will draw on four main kinds of resources, both human and nonhuman. The first one is the EUCases Linking platform. For its correct set up, operation,
maintenance and updating, the platform will then need the help of programmers, web
designers, and legal professionals with an expertise in EU and international law.
Programmers and web designers will have to create a functional, easy-to-access and easyto-use platform, capable of providing the service described in the paragraph ‘Configuration of
services’. Legal professionals will be needed for providing, checking and updating contents.
Key activities: the main activities are focussed on the services provided (EUCases online
legal information service, ConsumerCases, EULinksChecker). The platforms’ structures will
have to be developed, implemented, continuously checked for operability, maintained, and
troubleshot. Besides, their contents will have to be constantly updated by experts in the
legislations of the MS concerned by the project.
Key partners: European and/or national legal portals, legal publishers, large international
legal firms (who could provide legal professionals for content providing and checking). For a
detailed breakdown of potential EUCases partners (and competitors), see sections 2.2 and
2.3 of this document.
Cost structure: wages for programmers, web designers and legal professionals for their
services.
Revenue streams: exploiting all kinds of sources: yearly subscription, i.e. access to a
defined range of information for a defined period of time (freemium strategy); licensing, i.e.
lease and sub-lease of all services or part of them to suitable distribution partners in
territories out of reach.
4.3
Next steps
In the coming months, project work on exploitation will comprise the following steps:

The methodology for exploitation planning, extended uptake and business case
modelling will be followed and improved when necessary as the plan unfolds in the
second project year.

Starting with the statistics about total numbers of legal professionals in EU Member
States presented below, the profile of the target group for EUCases tools and services
will need to be circumscribed more clearly.

Initial service configurations will be reviewed for completeness in terms of economic
parameters and assessed for economic and service viability. As appropriate,
configurations may be ranked along criteria such as value delivered, service quality or
efficiency.

Necessary cash flow and revenues will be identified, costs and benefits estimated and
necessary investments evaluated.

A marketing strategy will be developed. An essential part of the exploitation plan is
promoting services outside national markets and seeking agreement with more partners
who can provide legal knowledge in new domains. Possible partners will be further
analysed.

Details of IPR management will be agreed upon.
Concerning the Advisory Board, the members are actively supporting the business modelling
activities. In the meantime, suggestions for relevant experts have been received. The project
partners will seek their opinion independently of their part in the AB on topics such as market
analysis and business opportunities. Further concrete activities are illustrated on a timeline.
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Timeline
Key exploitation activities are marked on a timeline:
Exhibit 11: Timeline of key exploitation activities
EUCases exploitation timeline
D6.4 Market analysis and
exploitation plan v2
Exploitation focus group
meeting IT
D6.7 EUCases exploitation
planning report
First expert workshop,
designated exploitation part,
IT
2014
Final SWOT analysis APIS
Business model design
workshop in BG
2015
Preliminary SWOT anaylsis
APIS
Customer analysis workshop
in DE
Customer analysis workshop
in BG
2016
Second expert workshop,
designated exploitation part,
venue tbd
All project partners are committed to the exploitation and dissemination activities planned in
the project. They will provide input for the business model design as appropriate.
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Annex 1: Exploitation planning framework
and business model design concepts
In this Annex, largely copied here from D6.3 for completeness and easy reference, we list the
key concepts and terms of the exploitation planning framework.
The Business model canvas methodology for developing the business model(s) for EUCases
tools and services is introduced afterwards.
Building on these elements, the second version of the present document will present the
completed framework.
Key concepts and terms
In the area of exploitation or business planning and development there exists a
plethora of technical terms and concepts, the meaning of which can – depending on
author and circumstances – vary to a great extent. This sub chapter aims at providing
a concentrated overview of some selected terms, widely used within business
framework. In order to avoid confusion and offer some guidance to those partners
who may not be quite familiar with this kind of terminology, a description of key
concepts and terms, as graphically depicted in the figure below, will be provided ,
together with their relation as understood for EUCases.
Exhibit 12: Business framework terminology (key terminology within business framework)
Strategy
SWOT
Business
model
Business
Plan
Business
Case
Source: Based on empirica/TanJent 2008
Strategy
"Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-term: which achieves
advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging
environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations"42. It deals
with challenges of:

42
Where the business is trying to get to in the long-term – its direction;
Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R. (2008): Exploring Corporate Strategy: Texts and Cases, 8 th edition, ISBN: 9780273711925, p. 3.
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Which markets it should be in – its market;

Which activities are involved in the markets – its scope;

How the business should perform better than the competition in those markets – its
advantage;

Which resources of skills, assets, finance, relationships, technical competence and
facilities are needed to compete – its resources;

What external, environmental factors affect the businesses' ability to compete – its
environment;

Which values and expectations are held by those who have power in and around the
business – its stakeholders.
Furthermore, the relative positioning of a company in the market sector it belongs to,
determines whether its profitability is below or above the industry’s average. In this context,
competitive advantage plays a key role in assuring sustainable basis of above average
profitability in the long run. The strategy a company follows in order to be competitive in the
market, explains what the company will do better and how it will differ from its competitors.
“Competitive strategy is the search for a favourable competitive position in an industry, the
fundamental arena in which competition occurs. It aims to establish a profitable and
sustainable position against the forces that determine industry competition.”43Necessarily it
builds on an analysis of the market or industry which can be done using a value chain
analysis allowing for separation of the underlying activities a firm performs.
Low cost or differentiation, the two basic types of company’s competitive advantage,
combined with activities’ scope a company aims to achieve, lead to the three generic
competitive strategies Porter distinguishes (Exhibit 13): cost leadership, differentiation, and
focus. Following a cost leadership strategy, the firm sets out to become the low-cost
producer in its industry. In a differentiation strategy a firm seeks to be unique in its industry
along some dimensions that are widely valued by buyers. It is rewarded for its uniqueness
with a premium price. The focuser tailors its strategy to serving a submarket to the exclusion
of others. This can be either a cost focus or a differentiation focus.
Exhibit 13: Porter's Generic Competitive Strategies
Source: Porter, M., 1985
43
Porter, M. (1985): “Competitive Advantage”. The Free Press, New York.
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Theoretically most strategies are derived from one of the three generic strategies, while in
practice, “firms achieve superior performance only when they are unique, and when they do
something no other business does in ways that no other business can duplicate. […] When
all companies offer the same products and services to the same customers by performing
the same kinds of activities, no company will prosper. “44
SWOT
Furthermore, in the framework of strategic planning, SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities and Threats) analysis plays a particular role in assessing company’s internal
position and evaluating external environmental influences. “The investigation of the internal
environment will accordingly result in an overview of all weaknesses and strengths of the
company, while the investigation of the external environment will result in an overview of all
opportunities and threats. These are the results of the SWOT-analysis.”45 In this context,
internal environment comprises factors and variables within company itself (e.g. company’s
structure, culture and resource; customers; shareholders; etc.), while external environment
entails aspects outside the company (e.g. technology; politics; society; economy; etc.), which
the company itself may not have under control in the short run.

Strengths – definition of areas the company or organization excels in:

key priorities,

key competences

competitive advantages in the market.

resources, assets and people

unique selling proposition

Weaknesses – evaluation of company’s liabilities and own known vulnerabilities:

what the company can improve

what it should avoid

gaps in capabilities

financial reliability

factors influencing weakening of competitive strength or market reputation

Opportunities – spot useful opportunities in market developments and interesting trends

possibilities to enter new markets

advanced developments in technology and innovation

changes in government policies

potential partnerships, joint ventures or strategic alliances

competitors' vulnerabilities

Threats – assessment of potential challenges and monitoring of competitors

encountered obstacles

influence of political, legislative or environmental changes

ability to adapt with changing technology

cash-flow or debts problems

influence of economic volatilities home and abroad
44
Magretta, J. (2002): "Why Business Models Matter." Harvard Business Review 80(5): 86-92.
45
Houben, G., Lenie, K. And Vanhoof K. (1999): “A knowledge-based SWOT-analysis system as an instrument for strategic
planning in small and medium sized enterprises”. Decision Support Systems 26:125–135, p. 126.
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Exhibit 14: SWOT Analysis
Business model
‘Business model’ and ‘strategy’ are among the most frequently used terms in business
environment. Definitions of both these concepts are widely covered by literature, which often
reveals a lot of overlap between their definitions. Therefore, it is important to point out the
difference between these two terms based on their respective level of abstraction. A
business model is considered to be an abstract representation of some of the aspects of an
organization’s strategy. Furthermore, the level of information required highlights another
difference between these two concepts. In order to represent a firm’s strategy there is much
more information required relative to the information necessary to represent a business
model. Therefore, as illustrated in Exhibit 15 below, strategy is represented with a larger
ellipse compared to those of the two business models. Additionally, it should be emphasized
that there is a numerous number of business models which might be built upon the strategy
of the company, representing different views of the same strategy. 46
Exhibit 15: The relationship between the concepts “business model” and “strategy”
Source: Seddon, P. B. and Geoffrey, P. L. 2003, p. 238.
46
Seddon, P. B. and Geoffrey, P. L. (2003): “Strategy and Business Models: What’s the Difference?“, pp. 236-248.
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A business model is a conceptual tool that contains a set of elements, their relationships, and
at the same time allows expressing the business logic of a specific firm or organisation. The
term was first mentioned in the accounting literature of the 1960s, but only gained
widespread use in the 1990s.47 A business model is considered to be an abstract
representation of some aspect of a firm’s strategy; which outlines the essential details related
to the way how the firm can successfully deliver value to its customers.48 It underlines the
core logic and strategic choices for creating and capturing value within the value network,
providing at the same time a powerful way for executives to analyse and communicate their
strategic choices.49
Essentially, a business model is the method of doing business by which a company or
organisation can sustain itself by generating revenue to cover expenditure, or by fulfilling
certain objectives, such as the provision of public services. Basically, a business model
consists of a product / service to be sold to a customer, using an infrastructure creating costs
and revenue streams. In a simplified representation, a business model can be broken down
into a few pillars: “what” a company offers in order to deliver value to the customer; “who” are
the most important customers for whom the company is creating value; ”how” is the company
reaching its customer segments, though which channels and how are these channels
integrated; “how much” can be earned by doing this.
What?
A value proposition is an overall view of a company's bundle of products and/or services
that are of value to the customer. The value proposition answers the questions: ‘Why should
a customer buy the product or service?”;”Which customer needs are being satisfied?”; “What
value is being delivered to the customer?”, etc. There are several elements, qualitative (e.g.
price, quality of service, speed of service, etc.) and quantitative ones (e.g. design,
customization, usability, customer experience, etc.), which have an impact on customers’
value creation and should be considered.
Who?
This pillar of the business model covers the customer management related aspects,
including: the definition of the target customer; the potential channels and means to reach
and communicate with the target customer; as well as the relationship the company aims to
establish with its customer. In brief, the target customer is a segment of customers a
company aims to offer value to. A distribution channel is a means of getting in touch with,
and handing the product / service over to the customer. It refers to the way how the company
chooses to reach its customer and the way how it decided to enter the market. Finally, the
customer relationship describes the kind of link a company establishes between itself and
specific customer segments.
How?
All the elements related to the company’s infrastructure management cover different aspects
of the company, which are pivotal to make its business model work in order to further
generate value and reach the customer. These include: determination of the key resources
required in order to create and offer a value proposition; definition of the most important
activities necessary for the company to operate successfully; identification of potential
partner networks and alliances for optimising business model or reduce risk. Therefore,
getting back to Figure 9 above, core capabilities refer to the ability to execute a repeatable
pattern of actions that is necessary in order to create value for the customer. Hence, the
company has to make sure that it disposes the necessary capabilities to deliver its value
47
Osterwalder, A. (2004): The Business Model Ontology - A Proposition In A Design Science Approach, p.23
48
Magretta, J. (2002)
49
Shafer, M. S., Smith, J. H. and Linder, J. C. (2005): “The power of business models” Business Horizons 48: 199-207
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proposition, and also the required resources for doing so. Further, all the activities and
processes that are necessary to create value for the target customer are described under the
value configuration part, of the business model. Finally, partnerships and alliances may help
the company to consolidate its competences, strengthen its market position, reduce potential
risks or acquire resources. A partnership is a voluntary initiated cooperative agreement
between two or more companies, driven by various types of motivations.
How much?
The financial aspects constitute a crucial part of a business model in order to make a profit
possible. The cost structure is the representation in money of all the resources employed by
the business. It measures, all the necessary costs a company has to incur to operate (e.g. to
produce, to market, to deliver, etc.). Cost structures may be of different characteristics, such
as: fixed costs, costs that retain the same regardless the volume of goods or services
produced; variable costs, costs that vary proportionally with the volume of goods or services
produced; economies of scale, cost advantages that a business enjoys as its output
expands; economies of scope, cost advantages that a business enjoys due to a larger scope
of operations. On the other hand, the revenue model describes the way(s) a company
secures liquidity through money inflow, usually from selling its products and services.
Business plan
Among the terms and concepts in Exhibit 12, “business plan” or ’exploitation plan‘ (here used
synonymously) is the one that is of greatest interest in the present context, since this type of
plan will constitute the main outcome of the respective project activities. Theoretically, a
business plan can be considered a statement of intent in implementing the first few years of
a longer-term strategy. It is a planning document that clearly describes the development
objective of a proposed or existing business. Business plans are usually completed in a
repetitive time frequency. They also identify the investments needed, necessary to achieve
the changes that help to reach the determined goals. Business plans used for the purpose of
internal operations and raising capital, include a description of a company, business strategy
and financial projections. Business plans can be designed for existing organisations with
continuing activities and also for new ventures seeking support, such as with venture
capitalists and banks.
Business case
The business case is set in the context of the strategy options to advance the strategy and
business plan. The purpose of a business case is to capture the reasoning for initiating a
project or task, e.g. investing in the development of a new service or changing the business
model for supplying existing products. From a commercial perspective, it shows forecasts of
new markets, assets, operations, sales and income for a set of options, enabling a preferred
option to be selected and pursued to achieve the best return on capital.
A business case provides an overview on the expected overall financial performance over a
period of time, typically between 2 and 10 years, depending on the particular project, risks,
and expected timing of returns. Business cases should be rigorous in risk probabilities and
optimism bias, and should have an option to stop at any stage in the decision cycle.
Developing the business model
For development of the business model, the consortium plans to make use the Business
Model Canvas methodology, which will allow e.g. a focus group of potential customers to
sketch and discuss business model elements.
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A Business Model Canvas50, first proposed
p
by Osterwalder51, is a strategic management
template for developing new business models.. It is a visual chart (see Fehler!
Verweisquelle konnte nicht gefunden werden. with elements describing a firm's value
proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances. It assists firms in aligning their activities
by illustrating potential trade-offs.
offs. It relates in many ways to the building bloc
blocks of business
models, as discussed above (section 0).
The Canvas can be printed out on a large surface so groups of people can jointly work on it,
e.g. with Post-itit notes or board markers. If introduced properly, the Canvas be
becomes a
hands-on
on tool that fosters understanding, discussion, creativity, and analysis especially of
more complex value propositions and value networks.
Exhibit 16:: Business Model Canvas as proposed by Osterwalder et al.
Source:
e: Osterwalder, A. et al. (2010) "Business Model Generation", self
self-published.
The main elements of the Canvas are as follows:
Infrastructure

Key Activities:: The most important activities in executing a company's value proposition.

Key Resources:: The resources
resources that are necessary to create value for the customer.
While these resources can be human, financial,
cial, physical and intellectual, in the case of
EUCases tools and services they are mainly the information that can be sourced and the
50
See Wikipedia entry on "Business Model Canvas"
51
Osterwalder, A. (2008) "The
The Business Model Canvas",
Canvas www.nonlinearthinking.typepad.com,, July 05, 2008. See also
Osterwalder, A. and Pigneur,, Y. (2003) "Modeling value propositions in e-Business" In: Proceedings of the 5th international
conference
ference
on
Electronic
commerce,
ACM,
2003,
http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings190/P
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functional features with which the information can be processed (i.e. searched, adapted,
translated etc.)

Key Partners: In order to optimize operations and reduce risks of a business model,
organization usually cultivate buyer-supplier relationships so they can focus on their core
activity. Complementary business alliances also can be considered through joint
ventures, strategic alliances between competitors or non-competitors.
Offering
The collection of products and services a business offers to meet the needs of its customers
is termed the Value Proposition. A company's value proposition is what distinguishes itself
from its competitors52. The value proposition provides value through various elements such
as newness, performance, customization, "getting the job done", design, brand/status, price,
cost reduction, risk reduction, accessibility, and convenience/usability. The value
propositions may be quantitative (price and efficiency) and/or qualitative (overall customer
experience and outcome).
Customers
To build an effective business model, a company must identify which customers it tries to
serve. Identification of customer segments based on the different needs and attributes
ensure appropriate implementation of corporate strategy meets the characteristics of
selected group of clients. The different types of customer segments include:

Mass Market: There is no specific segmentation for a company that follows the Mass
Market element as the organization displays a wide view of potential clients.

Niche Market: Customer segmentation based on specialized needs and characteristics of
its clients.

Segmented: A company applies additional segmentation within existing customer
segment. In the segmented situation, the business may further distinguish its clients
based on gender, age, and/or income.

Diversify: A business serves multiple customer segments with different needs and
characteristics.

Multi-Sided Platform / Market: For a smooth day to day business operation, some
companies will serve mutually dependent customer segment. A credit card company will
provide services to credit card holders while simultaneously assisting merchants who
accept those credit cards.
Channels: A company can deliver its value proposition to its targeted customers through
different channels. Effective channels will distribute a company’s value proposition in ways
that are fast, efficient and cost effective. An organization can reach its clients either through
its own channels (store front), partner channels (major distributors), or a combination of both.
Customer Relationship: To ensure the survival and success of any businesses, companies
must identify the type of relationship they want to create with their customer segments.
Various forms of customer relationships include:

Personal Assistance: Assistance in a form of employee-customer interaction. Such
assistance is performed either during sales, after sales, and/or both.

Dedicated Personal Assistance: The most intimate and hands on personal assistance
where a sales representative is assigned to handle all the needs and questions of a
special set of clients.
52
cf Anderson, J.C. et al. (2006) " Customer Value Propositions in Business Markets", Harvard Business Review, March 2006
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
Self Service: The type of relationship that translates from the indirect interaction between
the company and the clients. Here, an organization provides the tools needed for the
customers to serve themselves easily and effectively.

Automated Services: A system similar to self-service but more personalized as it has the
ability to identify individual customers and his/her preferences. An example of this would
be Amazon.com making book suggestion based on the characteristics of the previous
book purchased.

Communities: Creating a community allows for a direct interaction among different clients
and the company. The community platform produces a scenario where knowledge can be
shared and problems are solved between different clients.

Co-creation: A personal relationship is created through the customer’s direct input in the
final outcome of the company’s products/services.
Finances
Cost Structure: This describes the most important monetary consequences while operating
under different business models.

Classes of Business Structures: cost-driven or value-driven;

Characteristics of Cost Structures: fixed costs vs. variable costs; Economies of Scale;
Economies of Scope; etc.
Revenue Streams: The way a company makes income from each customer segment.
Several ways to generate a revenue stream:

Asset Sale – (the most common type) Selling ownership rights to a physical good;

Usage Fee – Money generated from the use of a particular service;

Subscription Fees – Revenue generated by selling a continuous service;

Lending/Leasing/Renting – Giving exclusive right to an asset for a particular period of
time;

Licensing – Revenue generated from charging for the use of a protected intellectual
property;

Brokerage Fees – Revenue generated from an intermediate service between 2 parties.
i.e. Broker selling a house for commission;

Advertising – Revenue generated from charging fees for product advertising.
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Templates: SWOT and Business
Model Canvas
SWOT
In order to properly define value
alue propositions, select appropriate financial models, necessary
supporting partners, etc., the company’s internal position needs to be assessed and external
environmental influences need to be evaluated.
The SWOT template used to gather this information can be found below.
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Business model canvas
Exhibit 15: Building blocks of business models
HOW?
WHAT?
INFRASTRUCTURE
WHO?
CUSTOMER
OFFER
PARTNER
NETWORK
CUSTOMER
RELATIONSHIP
VALUE
PROPOSITION
CORE
CAPABILITIES
VALUE
CONFIGURATION
COST
STRUCTURE
TARGET
CUSTOMER
DISTRIBUTION
CHANNEL
FINANCE
REVENUE
STREAMS
PROFIT
HOW MUCH?
Source: empirica, based on Osterwalder, A. (2004)53
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Annex 3: European publishers of legal data –
research
Germany
Company
name
Dr. Otto Schmidt Verlag
Business
entity
limited partnership
Management
Prof. Dr. Felix Hey
Company
structure
1. Subsidiary companies
- Centrale für GmbH Dr. Otto Schmidt KG, Cologne (www.centrale.de):
consultancy in all law and tax questions, over 100 years experience
- Fachseminare von Fürstenberg GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne (www.fachseminarevon-fuerstenberg.de): seminar offers for layers, tax advisors, certified accountants,
etc.
- Sellier (SELO), Munich (www.sellier.de): founded to support the development of
a European civil code, the first results of which have been published; in addition, it
has an impressive programme with books, magazines and electronic products on
European private law as well as international business and private law. In these
areas the publishing house aims to publish scientific works of the highest quality.
SELP
- Anwalt-Suchservice Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt GmbH, Cologne (www.anwaltsuchservice.de): the service lawyers and clients together. The lawyer database
has more than 120000 addresses and is thus the largest of its kind in Germany.
Another service is consultancy via email through the portal.
- Anwaltssuche.de GmbH (www.anwaltssuche.de): software for searching for
lawyers online.
- FAS Fachanwalt Service GmbH, Cologne (www.fachanwaltsuche.de): portal for
searching for specialised lawyers (specialized in specific areas of expertise) which
gives the clients more security in finding the right professional.
- Sack Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne (www.sack-mediengruppe.de):
with nine sites, it is one of the leading trade groups for specialized books in the
areas law, business, and taxes. More than two million resources are available
online.
- LEGIOS GmbH, Cologne (www.juris.de): powered by juris, this portal has works
from Dr. Otto Schmidt connected to a series of decisions and laws provided by
juris.
2. Cooperations
- RWS Verlag Kommunikationsforum GmbH, Cologne (www.rws-verlag.de): a
house offering seminars, books and magazines.
- Verlag Ernst und Werner Gieseking GmbH, Bielefeld (www.gieseking-verlag.de)
- TeleLex GmbH (www.telelex.de): online based software offering online seminars,
ebooks and specialized literature.
3. Partnerships
- Handelsblatt Fachmedien GmbH (www.fachmedien.de/): specialized magazines,
online services, apps, studies and book series.
- Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag für Wirtschaft·Steuern·Recht GmbH (www.schaefferpoeschel.de): one of the leading publishers of business books in German.
4. Branches abroad
- n.a.
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figures
Short
description
Products and
services
- Zöller Online: specialised literature for professionals, linked, comfortable
navigation and easy search; scope: ZPO (civil law), civil code, examples, forms,
etc.; price: 39€/month/user for full use
- Probeabo: monthly publication about German law; price: 274€/year or
13,70€/publication; 4 publications incl. App plus two months test access for free
- Zeitschriften-App: an app allowing subscribers to have full access to their legal
and fiscal professional journals; free app use, but only for subscribers
- Steuerberater Center Online: offers practitioners access to all content types
specific to tax types via library with complete linked texts for a quick search; price:
39€/month or 468/year for 3 work spaces
- Premiummodul Steuerrecht: comments, specialised books about fiscal law, all
linked with the juris database; price: 124€/month/user.
- Other modules on different topics:
Premiummodul Gesellschaftsrecht: online library on corporate law, content
is linked to the juris database; price: 159€/month/user
Wirtschaftsrecht: selected comments and manuals on the core areas of
commercial law, linked to the juris database; price: 68€/month/user
Umwandlungsrecht: transformation law; price: 68€/month/user
Umsatzsteuerrecht: value-added tax law; price: 98€/month/user
Steuerstrafrecht: law regarding fiscal offenses; price: 83€/month/user
Internationales Steuerrecht: international fiscal law; price: 68€/month/user
Hübschmann/Hepp/Spitaler-Online powered by juris: general tax law and
tax court code; price: 19€/month/user
GmbH-Recht: law for companies with limited partnership with a limited
liability; price: 88€/month/user
FamRZonline: access to the leading journal of family law; price:
46€/month/user
Ertragsteuerrecht: income tax law; price: 98€/month/user
Erbschaftsteuerrecht: inheritance tax law; price: 88€/month/user
Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht: bank and equity market law; price:
49€/month/user
Arbeitsrecht: labour law; price: 59€/month/user
Aktienrecht: stock corporation law; price: 98€/month/user
CROnline: access to materials on IT law, including journals, a manual,
comments and contract collections; price: 59€/month/user
Contact
Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer 58
50968 Köln
Postfachadresse:
Postfach 51 10 26
50946 Köln
Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
Prof. Dr. Felix Hey
[email protected]
http://www.otto-schmidt.de/
Tel.: +49 (0) 221-93738-01
Fax: +49 (0) 221-93738-900
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Amtsgericht Köln, HRA 5237
USt-Ident-Nr. DE 123047975
Inhaltlich Verantwortlicher: Markus Becker
Company
name
Haufe Group
Business
entity
multiple companies (Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. KG, Haufe-Lexware
Verwaltungs GmbH, Haufe Service Center GmbH, Haufe Akademie GmbH & Co.
KG,)
Management
Isabel Blank, Markus Dränert, Jörg Frey, Birte Hackenjos, Randolf Jessl, Markus
Reithwiesner, Joachim Rotzinger, Dr. Carsten Thies
Company
structure
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- Haufe, Freiburg (http://www.haufe.de/): specialises in integrated solutions for the
successful design of fiscal, economic and legal responsibilities. The solutions
include specialized information, applications, services, online communities and
portals, as well as specialized training and qualification opportunities.
- Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co. KG, Freiburg (http://www.haufe-lexware.com/):
Over 1 million users rely on Germany's leading business suits/solutions for selfemployed persons, freelancers and companies with up to 50 employees.Different
packages available in the fields inventory management, accounting, business
administration, salaries and wages, HR, private finances, taxes.
- Haufe Akademie GmbH & CO. KG, Freiburg (http://www.haufe-akademie.de/):
one of the leading institutes for professional training in the German-speaking
countries. The product range includes seminars, customized e-learning solutions,
and in-house training and consultancy.
- VCW (Verlag für ControllingWissen AG), Freiburg (http://www.vcw-verlag.de/):
Controller magazine, books, sample booklets and CD-ROM products.
- Haufe-Lexware Real Estate AG, Freiburg (http://realestate.haufe.de): software
solutions, specialised journals, consultancy and training.
- Hammonia, Freiburg (http://www.hammonia.de): leading provider of professional
journals, technical books and special forms for the housing and real estate
industry. Renowned authors from practice and science publish with Hammonia.
- LSL (Literatur-Service Leipzig), Leipzig, Boston (http://lsl.haufe.de/): offers one of
the most innovative intranet purchasing platforms, with which corporations can
model the customers’ and their own procurement processes.
- New Times Corporate Communications GmbH, Hamburg, Munich
(www.newtimes.de): the portfolio includes dynamic web magazines for mobile
devices like smartphones and tablets, ultra-modern HTML5/CSS3 web portals,
corporate web TV, apps, e-learning and training platforms, social media solutions,
corporate books and classic customer and employee magazines.
- Haufe-umantis AG, St. Gallen (http://www.haufe-umantis.com): Umantis talent
management software simplifies processes for application, staff development and
staff appraisals. About 750 customers use the web-based modules in 120
countries. The customers of Haufe- umantis include companies such as Axpo,
Clariant, Goodyear, Kuoni, Lindt, Migros, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Raiffeisen,
Ringier.
- Semigator GmbH, Berlin (http://www.semigator.de): Germany's largest Internet
marketplace for training and a procurement platform for training for large and
medium enterprises. Semigator supports companies in finding the right training
measure. The range includes open seminars, company-specific in-house seminars
and training as well as coaching.
- smartsteuer GmbH, Hannover (http://www.smartsteuer.de): aims to assist
taxpayers with a fast, easy and secure online product in the preparation of their tax
return.
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- Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart (https://www.schaeffer-poeschel.de/): publisher of
business, tax and law materials (ebooks, journals).
2. Cooperations
- Haufe-Lexware Kooperationsmarketing GmbH (100%)
- Literatur-Service Leipzig (LSL) AG (100%)
- Verlag für ControllingWissen AG (51%)
- Haufe-Lexware Real Estate AG (100%)
- ESS EDV-Software-Service AG (100%)
- smartsteuer GmbH (51 %)
- Haufe New Times (100 %)
- Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag GmbH (100 %)
3. Partnerships
- n.a.
4. Branches abroad
- n.a.
Financial
figures
Short
description
Haufe Gruppe ist Deutschlands führendes Medien- und Softwarehaus für
Fachinformationen und -portale, (Cloud Computing-)Applikationen, eProcurement,
Online-Communitys sowie Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung. Zu den
Hauptzielgruppen der Haufe Gruppe gehören große und mittelständische
Unternehmen, Kleinbetriebe und Selbstständige, Steuerberater und Anwälte, der
Öffentliche Dienst sowie Immobilienunternehmen und Vereine. Bei ihnen nimmt
die Haufe Gruppe mit den Marken Haufe, Haufe Akademie und Lexware eine
führende Marktstellung ein.
Products and
services
84 Online products, 99 software packages. Examples:
- Haufe Steuer Office Gold: premium database on tax law, accounting and
personnel; price: 1663 €/year.
- Haufe Business Office Professional: one solution for personnel, finance, taxes,
marketing and sales; price: 1656€/year.
- UnternehmensPLANER PRO: software for business planning and controlling;
price: 348€/year.
Contact
Haufe Service Center GmbH
Der Service - Dienstleister der Haufe Gruppe
Munzinger-Str. 9
D-79111 Freiburg
Company
name
Süddeutscher Verlag
Business
entity
GmbH
Management
Dr. Detlef Haaks, Dr. Karl Ulrich, Alexander Paasch
Company
structure
- Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding - 81,25%
- Familienstamm Friedmann (publisher family) - 18,75 %
2. Cooperations
- Participations in in various tv and radio companies: Radio Gong, TOP FM,
Antenne Bayern, Studio Gong, Privatfernsehen in Bayern/Sat1 Regional, and
others, all under the umbrella of SV Teleradio Produktions- und
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Beteiligungsgesellschaft für elektronische Medien mbH
3. Partnerships
- n.a.
4. Branches abroad
- n.a.
Financial
figures
The Süddeutsche Verlag holds numerous holdings in media companies at home
and abroad.
Short
description
Products and
services
Contact
Company
name
C.H. Beck
Business
entity
General Partnership (OHG)
Management
Dr. Hans Dieter Beck, Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Beck
Company
structure
- Verlag Franz Vahlen GmbH (www.vahlen.de/): one of the largest and most
respected law and economics scientific publishing houses in Germany. They
publish academic commentaries, manuals, and journals in the field of law,
economics, and the social sciences.
- Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (www.nomos.de/): a publishing house
focusing on legal text documentation, and comprehensive books and magazines
for legal practitioners.
- Kommunal- und Schul-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (www.kommunalpraxis.de/):
offers numerous monographs, loose-leaf publications, and digital products in
various areas of law. They are known for publishing “Praxis der
Kommunalverwaltung” (The Local Government Code of Practice), in which 36,000
pages of all relevant laws and regulations per state along with areas of work under
municipal administration are explained in detail. The Code of Practice is also
available in DVD and online as “Kommunalpreaxis plus”.
- id Verlags GmbH (www.ibr-online.de/): a database for all consultants in the areas
of real estate, construction, rental, apartment ownership and procurement law.
- Schweitzer Fachinformationen (www.schweitzer-online.de): provides a wide
spectrum of services from printed books and magazines to electronic media (ebooks, online databases, e-journals) on law, economics, and taxes.
2. Cooperations
n.a.
3. Partnerships
- Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag (dtv) GmbH & Co. KG (www.dtv.de/): an
independent paperback publishing house offering online services, podcasts,
ebooks, and wide variety of books, including compilations of law texts (Beck'sche
Gesetzestexte) that are published in inexpensive paperback editions.
4. Branches abroad
- Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag AG & Co. KG (www.helbing.ch): based in Basel, this
publishing house now focuses on the areas of legal, tax and business.
Annotations, monographs, and manuals on all areas of Swiss and European law
are available in French and German to fulfil the company’s goal of bridging legal
culture of German-speaking Switzerland and that of western Switzerland.
- Wydawnictwo C.H. Beck Sp. z o.o. (www.beck.pl): issues professional
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publications in the field of law, taxation, economics, and foreign literature. They
also developed a program called “System Informacji Prawnej Legalis”, which offers
learning modules on law and law systems, as well as access to annotations,
monographs, and journals on case law.
- Nakladatelstvi C.H. Beck s.r.o. (www.beck.cz): a popular and respected source of
legal information in Czech Republic. Apart from commentaries, textbooks, and
practical guides for major legal disciplines, they also publish the magazine series
“Právní rozhledy” (Legal Perspectives), which is known as the best legal journal in
the country.
- Nakladatelstvi C.H. Beck s.r.o. (www.beck.sk): the youngest of the international
branches; publish and market legal literature including commentaries and
textbooks; online services available.
- Editura C.H. Beck s.r.l. (www.beck.ro): one of the top publishing houses in
Romania, having published over 3,000,000 copies of more than 2,000 titles on the
areas of law and economics. Achievements include the establishment of the first
exclusive online legal library in the country (legalis.ro), the launch of a legal
encyclopedia that includes the work of distinguished Romanian lawyers, and the
development of electronic publications on case law from the High Court, among
others.
Financial
figures
Short
description
Established in 1763, C.H. Beck is one of the oldest and most notable among
German publishing companies. With more than 9,000 available titles including
many electronic publications, around 70 professional journals, and an annual
production of up to 1,500 new publications and new editions, C.H.BECK publishing
company also ranks in the top tier in terms of quantity among German publishers
of books and magazines. Its current activities are divided into two domains: the
law-taxs-economics branch and the literature-nonfiction-science branch. Today
C.H.Beck supports all conceivable forms of publications in the field of law, such as
large multi-volume works for specialists as well as modestly priced brochures for a
wide audience, continuously updated loose-leaf folders, textbooks and
professional journals, DVDs and Apps and an online database. In addition, C.H.
Beck holds majority stake in a number of legal publishing firms and seminar
providers.
Products and
services
A big variety of products offered, all found in their online database (https://beckonline.beck.de/). Examples:
- Europarecht PLUS: access to leading EUV/EGV comments; full texts on
exemptions, fundamental rights, legal protection, and current case law; journals on
business law, consumer law, comparative public law, and nternational law; and
essays on European law; price: 72€/month for up to 3 users per company.
- LSK Plus: https://beck-online.beck.de/?modid=58
- ADAJUR: access to principle guidelines and paper abstracts in the fields of
liability and damage law, purchase and lease rights, travel law, consumer
protection law, insurance and tax law, administrative and constitutional law, and
European law among others; price: 21€/month for up to 3 users per company.
Contact
Main offices:
Verlag C.H.BECK oHG
Wilhelmstrasse 9
D - 80801 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 / 38 189-0
Fax: +49 89 / 38 189-398
e-mail: [email protected]
Postal address: P.O. Box 40 03 40, 80703 Munich, Germany
Rapid transit: U3 or U6 Station Giselastrasse
Verlag C.H.BECK oHG
Professional Journals Editorial Offices
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Beethovenstrasse 7b
D - 60325 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Phone: +49 69 / 756 091-0
Fax: +49 69 / 756 091-49
e-mail: [email protected]
Company
name
Wolters Kluwer Deutschland
Business
entity
Limited Liability Company (GmbH)
Management
Dr. Ulrich Hermann
Company
structure
- n.a.
2. Cooperations
- n.a.
3. Partnerships
- n.a.
4. Branches abroad
- The Wolters Kluwer Headquarters is based in the Netherlands. The company
operates in over 40 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and
Latin America.
Financial
figures
Annual sales in Germany: 208 million € (2013)
Annual revenues of all Wolters Kluwer companies: 3.6 billion € (2013)
Short
description
The Wolters Kluwer Germany GmbH is a knowledge and information services
provider with core competencies in the fields of law, economics and taxes. For the
professional user Wolters Kluwer Germany provides in-depth specialist information
in the form of literature, software and services. The company, headquartered in
Cologne, has over 20 locations around 1,200 employees and operates more than
25 years on the German market.
Products and
services
Contact
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Wolters Kluwer Germany is part of the leading international information services
provider Wolters Kluwer nv , headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn (Netherlands).
The company's core markets are legal, business, tax, accounting, corporate and
financial services and healthcare; The target group are professionals. The shares
are listed on the Euro Euronext Amsterdam (WKL), included in the AEX and
Euronext 100 Index in EUR.
Over 3,000 products and services are offered. Examples:
- JURION Rechtsprechung- und Gesetzesdatenbank: one of the most
comprehensive legal databases in Germany that contains all federal and European
legal regulations as well as all available decisions of the European Court of Justice
(ECJ and CFI) and the European Court of Human rights; price: 59€/month/user or
single unit price of 226,23€.
- Legal tribune ONLINE: an online magazine that provides its readers with daily
updates and the most important news and background information on current
jurisdiction and legislation. Free subscription.
- AnNoText software
Mailing address:
Wolters Kluwer Germany Holding GmbH
Luxemburger Straße 449
50939 Cologne
Address for visitors:
Wolters Kluwer Germany Holding GmbH
Robert-Bosch-Straße 6
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50354 Hürth
Phone: +49 2631 801 2222
Fax: +49 2631 801 2223
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.wolterskluwer.de/
Company
name
juris
Business
entity
Limited Liability Company (GmbH)
Management
Samuel van Oostrom, John Weichert
Company
structure
Shareholders:
Bundesrepublik Deutschland – 50,01%
Sdu Holding B.V. – 45,33%
Saarland – 2,99%
Verlegervereinigung Rechtsinformatik Beteiligungsgesellschaft GbR –
0,71%
Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer – 0,24%
Deutscher Anwaltverein – 0,24%
Hans Soldan GmbH – 0,24%
Haufe-Lexware GmbH & Co KG – 0,24%
- n.a.
2. Cooperations
- n.a.
3. Partnerships
Numerous. Some of the relevant ones are listed below:
- Bodak Verlag GmbH, Dusseldorf (www.bodak.de/REE/content/index.html):
known for publishing “Recht der Erneuerbaren Energien”, the first legal journal that
is devoted exclusively to renewable energy law, wherein all significant legal
developments in the field of renewable energies are collected and compiled.
- Bund-Verlag GmbH, Cologne (www.bund-verlag.de): One of the leading
providers of specialist information on labour law and social law in the German
market. Their services include counseling, manuals, commentaries, journals, and
digital expert systems and databases for online use.
- Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin (www.esv.info/homepage.html): Founded in Berlin in
1924, they currently publish about 2,000 available titles. An extensive range of
media is offered with topics on law (especially social law and environmental law),
economics, tax and philology. This publishing house is also particularly well-known
for its numerous standard works and the rapid establishment of new publications.
- Handelsblatt Fachmedien GmbH, Dusseldorf (www.fachmedien.de): One of the
leading providers of highly specialized information on the fields of law, business
and taxes, and corporate governance. They offer online services, apps, journals,
and book series as well as a wide range of specialist conferences and seminars.
- Medien & Recht (M&R) Verlag, Munich (www.mur-verlag.de): A publishing house
that was first established in Vienna in 1985. In 2006 a branche office in Munich
became the centerpoint of activities for the German market. They specialize in Media, IP &
IT and Telecommunication law. A variety of publications in German and English as well
as seminars are also offered.
- RWS Verlag GmbH, Cologne (www.rws-verlag.de/): Has been offering specialist
information, counseling, and journals on insolvency law, company law, banking
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and capital market law for the past 30 years.
- sellier European law publishers (selp), Munich (www.sellier.de): Founded in 2000
by the publishing dynasty Sellier, selp has built up a remarkable programme of
books, journals and electronic databases on the subject of European private law,
international economic law and private international law. They now affiliate with
Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt.
- WM Group, Frankfurt am Main (www.wmgruppe.de): A firm that offers
newspapers, seminars and WM IV, one of the most respected legal journals in the
German language. WM IV is published weekly and has proven itself as a pilot in
the business and banking law.
- zerb Verlag, Bonn (www.zerb.de): The publishing house zerb was founded by
attorney Dr. Manuel Tanck in 1999. The offer a magazine specializing in Tax and
Inheritance Law, along with a series of manuals and more than 50 books on the
subject of inheritance.
4. Branches abroad
- n.a.
Financial
figures
Short
description
Products and
services
Contact
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juris is a successful business enterprise that has more than a million documents
on the most comprehensive collection of relevant decisions on all areas of law
reaching back to 1947. The company was founded in 1984 as a department of the
Federal Ministry of Justice and in 1985 converted into a limited liability company of
federal ownership. In 2000, a partial privatization took place, in which the
renowned Dutch publishing house “Sdu” became the second-largest shareholder
of juris after the federal government. Sdu is now part of the traditional French
publisher group: “Editions Lefebvre Sarrut” (ELS), a leading specialist publisher in
France.
The primary content of their products includes the decisions of the Federal
Constitutional Court and the five highest federal courts, all lower courts in
Germany and the European Court of Justice. Moreover, in the juris databases with
all standards of the federal and state laws searchable. In addition, information on
EU right to collective bargaining agreements and other business information.
-juris Spectrum: a research tool for judges and law firms that contains more than
25 million linked documents in the fields of law and business providing
comprehensive, reliable and current information. In-depth commentaries and
practical information for specialists are also included; Price: 1800€/year/user.
Discounts available for multiple users.
-juris Professionell: research tool that contains approximately a million documents
on case law from they year 1947 onwards; full texts on federal law; practice
reports on Labour, BGH civil law, family and estate law, IT law, rental and
condominium law, criminal law, traffic law, and insurance law; commentaries; and
literature evaluation of over 750 journals; Price: 1200€/year/user. Discounts
available for multiple users.
- Access to over 350,000 documents of the federal law since the beginning of the
standard documentation by the Federal Ministry of Justice; Price: 20€/month/user.
-Access to the laws and regulations of each of the federal states in Germany;
Price: 10€/month/user/ for each state
-Access to a collection of relevant documents on different subjects modules such
as commercial and corporate law, IT and media law, medical law, traffic law, and
tax law among others; Documented decisions of specialized courts and an
evaluation of more than 600 journals is included; Price: 30€/month/user for each
subject module.
Mailing address:
juris GmbH
Postfach 101564
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66015 Saarbrücken
Tel.: +49681 5866-0
Fax: +49681 5866-239
E-Mail:[email protected]
Web: www.juris.de
Company
name
Makrolog Content Management AG
Business
entity
Joint Stock Company (AG)
Management
Andreas Herberger
Company
structure
- Recht für Deutschland GmbH (www.recht.makrolog.de/): maintains a portal with
the largest collection of official German law gazettes in electronic format. It offers
online access to all law gazettes and administrative registers of the German
Federal and state governments, including all past issues of these publication, as
well as all issues of the primary law gazette of the DDR, the German Reich, and
the North-German Confederation. It has also jointly developed a specialized online
law database to support local public administration in the German state of Hesse.
2. Cooperations
- n.a.
3. Partnerships
- n.a.
4. Branches abroad
- n.a.
Financial
figures
Short
description
Products and
services
Contact
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Makrolog Content Management AG has focused on the preparation, formatting,
administration, and maintenance of electronic content and data for over 30 years.
This work has included everything from highly structured information, such as
reference works or bibliographic data, to less structured texts, such journals or text
collections. They prepare electronic data for every desired publication format: print,
online, DVD, CD-ROM, and mobile apps.
- permanent: access to German law gazettes from 1949 and the laws of each
federal state. Access to more than 300,000 court decisions and European law may
be included for an additional fee; Price: from 144,20€/year.
- Recht für Deutschland direkt: daily personal e-mail delivery of PDFs on the latest
issues of the laws in Germany or any of the federal states; Price: from
32€/subscription.
- notarprompt: allows notaries to have electronic copies of the federal law gazette,
journal of laws in Germany, the journal of the regional judicial administration and
the official journal of the National Association of Notaries as part of their
requirement to fulfil their duty under § 32 BNotO; Price: from 84€/subscription.
- budget – Recht on demand: allows full access to the electronic archive wherein
the individual has a pay per view account; Price: 72€ minimum balance deposit,
6€/document viewed.
- direktkauf – Recht nach wahl: direct purchase of the electronic document; Price:
8€/document.
Makrolog Content Management Aktiengesellschaft
Patrickstraße 43
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65191 Wiesbaden
Tel.: 0611-95782-0
Fax.: 0611-95782-28
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.makrolog.de
Company
name
Deubner Verlag GmbH and co. KG
Business
entity
Limited Liability Company (GmbH) and Limited Partnership (KG)
Management
Werner Mützel, Wolfgang Materna (WEKA Corporate Group)
Company
structure
Deubner is under the Business Information division of WEKA Holding GMbH & Co.
KG. The WEKA corporate group grew from the WEKA Specialist Publishing House
for Public Authorities and Industry into one of the most successful German
specialist publishing groups with an international focus.
- n.a.
2. Cooperations
- n.a.
3. Partnerships
- n.a.
4. Branches abroad
- n.a.
Financial
figures
Short
description
Products and
services
The Deubner Verlag GmbH & Co. KG is a specialist publisher of tax and law and
headquartered in Cologne. It now belongs to the company group of WEKA
Business Information, and publishes reference information as a journal, textbook,
CD-ROM or online solution for the tax and legal advisory professions. Deubner
targets its products to specialist accountants, lawyers and notaries.
-Rechtsportal DRsp Deutsche Rechtsprechung Online: electronic database
containing documents on all major decisions of the federal courts, the most
important federal laws, selected important court decisions, and extensive
references. It also includes immediate access to commentaries and journals.
Areas of law include civil law, labour and social law, constitutional and
administrative law, tax law, criminal law, procedural law and professional law;
Price: 26,10€/month/user plus 19% VAT; Discounts available for the next 4 users.
Trial period 30 days.
-Mandanteninformation Online für Rechtsanwälte: web tool that allows an
informative lawyer-client or client-client interaction. A pool of 20-25 current verdict
meetings/ judgments and other researched texts on legislation and developments
in case law, family law, work law, traffic law and tenancy law are accessible each
month, Price: 39€/month/user plus 19% VAT. Trial period 60 days.
-PraxisModul Arbeits- und Sozialversicherungsrecht online: online database with
practical explanations of labor and social security law, test cases, and more than
200 editorially processed federal laws from January 2000. Documents are linked to
enable fast access to all citations and cross-references; Price: 24,90€/month/user
plus 19% VAT. Trial period 14 days.
-Premium-Mitgliedschaft
Rechtsportal
Familienrecht/Mietrecht/Verkehrsrecht:
premium access to the rechtsportal.de online database section on either family
law, tenancy law or traffic law. The database includes knowledge of proven
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experts; over 20,000 decisions in the relevant legislation; and over 350 templates,
checklists, and job aids; Price: 49,95€/month/user plus 19% VAT for family law;
39,95€/month/user plus 19% VAT for tenancy law or traffic law. Trial period 30
days.
Contact
Deubner Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
East Street 11
50996 Cologne
Phone: +49 221 937018-0
Fax: +49 221 937018-90
Italy
Company
name
Giuffrè Editore
Business
entity
n.a.
Management
n.a.
Company
structure
Financial
figures
€ 70 million (2010).
Short
description
Founded in 1931 by Antonio Giuffré, it has published more than 20.000 works
available, including electronic papers. In 1958 Giuffré has printed the first volume
of “Encyclopedia of Law”, one of most important law reviews, involving important
lawyers of '900. In 1988 Giuffré has published “Juris Data”, the first data-base on
Italian case law available via Floppy Disks and CDs-rom. In 2009 this publisher
has founded “Giuffré Informatica”, a software house that aims to develop
innovative solutions to lawyers and lecturers in Law Sciences. Every year, Giuffré
produces almost 800 legal and economics publications to 160.000 clients.
186 employees (2010).
Products and
services
- Ius Explorer: online juridical search tool
- Fiscopiù: a system providing information of everyday activities of accountants,
bookkeepers, auditors, and enterprise administration managers
- Cliens Processo Telematico: aimed to lawyers facing the digitization of justice. It
allows lawyers to real-time liaising with Justice infrastructures from office
- Cliens Gestione Studio Legale: a software tool for lawyers to efficiently manage
their own legal practice
- DeJure: online customizable system for juridical information
- Il Fallimentarista: portal of information and in-depth interdisciplinary analysis,
managed by a team of experts over the national territory
- Diritto e Giustizia: online newspaper for juridical information
- Enciclopedia del Diritto: Italy’s most prominent juridical publication for the last 50
years.
- Biblioteca riviste: online historical archive including 42 reviews published by
Giuffrè Editore: more 5000 issues
- Biblioteca Volumi: the most qualified Italian juridical catalogue: over 14,000
digitized volumes
- e-learning: online training for legal professionals: it offers a broad range of
updated online courses, acknowledged by the Forensic National Council
- Casi e Pareri: online service devoted to legal professionals who aim to clarify
their doubts and issues rapidly and safely.
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Contact
Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore S.p.A.
Via Busto Arsizio, 40 - 20151 Milano
VAT nr.: 00829840156
No email address available, but contact form available here:
http://www.giuffre.it/it-IT/altricontattiit.html
Company
name
UTET Giuridica (WK)
Business
entity
Management
Company
structure
n.a.
Affiliate of Wolter Kluwer Group
Financial
figures
n.a.
Short
description
Founded in 1791 in Turin, UTET is a pioneer on the legal information market in
Italy. During the 1980s and 1990s, UTET has acquired a number of smaller
publishers, expanding its market beyond the legal area. In 2005 it has sold its law
department (UTET Giuridica) to Wolters Kluwer group. UTET Giuridica publishes
several law reviews, codex, important monographs and treatises, and many daily
updated info services. It also offers several legal data bases on legislation and
Italian case law, mainly in DVD format.
Products and
services
Reviews:
- La Responsabilità Civile (Civil Liability): montlhy review
- Famiglia, Persone e Successioni (Family, Persons, and Successions): monthly
review
- Obbligazioni e Contratti (Bonds and Contracts): monthly review
- Giurisprudenza Italiana (Italian Jurisprudence): monthly review
- LP – La legislazione penale (Penal Legislation): tri-monthly review
- Rivista dell’Esecuzione Forzata (Court Order Review): tri-monthly review
- LEX – Legislazione Italiana (Italian Legislation): weekly review
Databases:
- PLURIS on line: online integrated system for search, updating and in-depth
analysis dedicated to lawyers
- DVD Platinum: 11 databases for legal professionals
- Suite Avvocato: software for the management of legal practices
- DIR – Danni Interessi Rivalutazione: software for the calculation of all kind of
damages, interests and appreciations.
- Giurisprudenza Italiana – Raccolta annate 1990 -2010: archive DVD including the
corresponding review’s issues
- AntiRiciclaggio Avvocati: software for the management of activities planned by
the anti-laundering legislation
- Giustizia patrimoniale penale
Books:
45 titles among law reviews, commentaries, treatises, books series and
monographs
20 titles of codices
Contact
Wolters Kluwer Italia Giuridica S.r.l
Legal headquarters: Strada I, Palazzo F6 . 20090 Milanofiori Assago (MI)
Operative headquarters: Viale Maresciallo Pilsudski, 124 - 00197 Roma
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Marketing Office: [email protected]
Company
name
IPSOA (WK)
Business
entity
Management
n.a.
Company
structure
Affiliate of Wolter Kluwer Group
Financial
figures
n.a.
Short
description
Ipsoa is also part of Wolter Kluwer group. It offers internet services for lawyers, law
firms, tax experts, compliance officers, scholars, business men. Ipsoa publishes
legal and economic reviews (including electronic versions), many data-bases in
DVDs on legislation and case law, and also offers e-learning services.
Products and
services
Ipsoa published 18 reviews, a number of books – including e-books - and codices,
databases and software, online services, as well as a training school, and a
number of apps.
Contact
WOLTERS KLUWER ITALIA SRL
Centro Direzionale Milanofiori Strada 1,
Palazzo F6 20090
ASSAGO - MILANO VAT nr. 10209790152
Commercial information:
E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 0039 02.82476.403
Administrative information:
Tel: 0039 02.82476.1; E-mail: : [email protected]; Fax: 02.82476.799
Company
name
MAGGIOLI Editore
Business
entity
Joint-stock company
Management
Company
structure
Affiliates in: Milan, Bologna, Rome, Naples
Financial
figures
€ 130 million
Short
description
Maggioli Editori, founded in 1940 by Paolo Maggioli, provides software and
services mainly related to innovation in the public administration sector. It
publishes over twelve specialised magazines and more series of titles, among
volumes, data bases, software and internet services. The data bases, both online
and offline, are an important resource also for all professionals and businesses
that operate in the legal, tax and corporate law fields. 1400 employees.
Products and
services
1,500 catalogue titles, 30 periodicals, 27 vertical portals (fiscoetasse.com,
leggioggi.it, ingegneri.cc, architetti.com, ediliziaurbanistica.it, etc.), mobile apps,
databases, software, newletters, trade fairs.
Significantly, Maggioli Editore is particularly attentive to the use of new
technologies. The catalogue databases, both online and offline, allow access to an
abundance of information. These are true legal operating systems that respond
with simplicity to the immediate needs for information and updates using practical
and quick document search methods. There are also numerous software
publications created to provide specific application instructions and practical
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guidance.
Maggioli also operates in integrated management of revenue and real estate
entities; Document engineering and IT for Public Administration. In addition,
Maggioli Editore offers training for public administration, businesses and
professionals.
Contact
MAGGIOLI EDITORE
Via Del Carpino, 8
47822 Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN)
Phone +39 541 628111
Fax +39 541 622595
[email protected]
France
Company
name
EDITIONS DALLOZ
Business
entity
Limited liability company
Management
Sylvie Faye
Company
structure
Partnerships and cooperations
Dalloz is a part of the group EDITIONS LEFEBVRE SARRUT (ELS) which consists
of the following other companies:

Editions législatives (http://www.editions-legislatives.fr) offers many
documents about business and social law

Editions Francis Lefebvre (http://www.efl.fr) is legal publisher specialised in
company law, tax law and business law

NetPme (http://www.netpme.fr) offers services about small and medium
enterprises
Other partner of Editions Dalloz is SECIB (http://www.secib.fr) which offers IT
services for lawyers.
Financial
figures
Capital: 4 million €
Profit: 3 million € (2013)
Headcount: 250
Short
description
Editions Dalloz is a leader of publisher market for professionals and universities in
France. They offer a lot of legal journals, books, encyclopaedias, codes and other
online products. The company was established in 1957 and in 2006 became a part
of the Group ELS mentioned above.
Products and
services
There is an option on the company main website http://www.dalloz.fr/ to search for
court decisions in a case law database with almost 2 million documents from
national (French) and some European jurisdictions. Dalloz actualité
http://www.dalloz-actualite.fr/ keeps users informed by providing legal news on a
daily basis. Another product of Dalloz called Domen Avocat creates websites for
lawyers. Juris Edition is a department in Dalloz specialised in provision of
information about non-profit organisations and their activities: tourism, sport and
healthcare. Dalloz offers also a service for writing of personalised contracts and
letters through this web site http://www.editions-delmas.com/.
All legal journals of Dalloz are available on http://www.dalloz-revues.fr/ and a full
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list of Dalloz’ products can be found in: http://www.dallozboutique.fr/media/wysiwyg/Tableau-dalloz-fr.pdf.
Contact
EDITIONS DALLOZ
Address: 31-35 rue Froidevaux
75685 Paris Cedex 14
Phone: 01 40 64 54 54
Fax: 01 40 64 54 97
Website: http://www.editions-dalloz.fr/
Company
name
Wolters Kluwer France
Business
entity
Simplified joint-stock company
Management
Hubert Chemla, Palmira Andrade, Isabelle Bussel, Yasmine Jourdan, Hervé
Flobert, Pierre-Albert Billault
Company
structure
Wolters Kluwer France (http://www.wolterskluwerfrance.fr/) is part of the leading
international information services provider Wolters Kluwer, headquartered in
Alphen aan den Rijn (Netherlands). The shares are listed on the Euro Euronext
Amsterdam (WKL), included in the AEX and Euronext 100 Index in EUR. The
company operates in over 40 countries across Europe, North America, Asia
Pacific, and Latin America with annual revenues (of all Wolters Kluwer companies):
3.6 billion € (2013).
Some of the companies and trademarks of Wolters Kluwer France are LAMY,
EDITION DALIAN and GROUPE LIAISONS.
Financial
figures
Capital: 300 million €
Profit: - 109 million € (2012)
Headcount: 844
Short
description
The company's core markets are legal, business, tax, accounting, corporate and
financial services and healthcare. Wolters Kluwer France was set up in 2004.
All legal books and journals of all trademarks of Wolters Kluwer France can be
found on: http://www.wkf.fr/accueil.html.
Products and
services
For the French market the most important product of Wolters Kluwer France is
called Lamyline: http://lamyline.lamy.fr/content/Search.aspx.
It represents a legal database with more than 4.5 million of documents – official
French and EU legal texts (all series of the Official Journal), treaties and
international agreements from 1964 onwards, French and EU case law which
includes almost 31 000 decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU (from 1954), the
Court of First Instance, the Civil Service Tribunal, the European Court of Human
rights (from 1960), French legislation and case law and many other documents.
Contact
Wolters Kluwer France
Address: 1, rue Eugène et Armand Peugeot
92856 Rueil-Malmaison cedex
Phone: 0 825 08 08 00
Fax: 01 76 73 30 00
Website: www.wkf.fr
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Company
name
LEXTENSO
Business
entity
Economic interest grouping (EIG)
Management
M. Pierre-Yves ROMAIN
Company
structure
Financial
figures
Capital: 50 000 €
Short
description
The company was established in 2002. Its main activity is data processing and
publishing of legal periodicals.
Products and
services
They propose 20 legal magazines in almost every area of law. Here they are with
subscription prices per year:
The main partnership of Lextenso company is with the limited liability company
Lextenso Editions, a publisher of legal literature. The second one was established
in 1955 and is managed by Emmanuelle FILIBERTI and Emmanuelle FILIBERTI.
Bulletin Joly Bourse - 522,00€
Bulletin Joly Entreprises en difficulté - 454,80€
Bulletin Joly Sociétés - 397,20€
Cahiers de l'arbitrage - 414,00€
Defrénois - 426,00€
Gazette du Palais - 390,00€
Les Cahiers Sociaux - 306,00€
Les nouveaux Cahiers du Conseil constitutionnel - 144,56€
L'ESSENTIEL Droit bancaire - 154,80€
L'ESSENTIEL Droit de l'immobilier et urbanisme - 154,80€
L'ESSENTIEL Droit de la famille et des personnes - 154,80€
L'ESSENTIEL Droit de la propriété intellectuelle - 154,80€
L'ESSENTIEL Droit des assurances - 154,80€
L'ESSENTIEL Droit des contrats - 154,80€
L'ESSENTIEL Droit des entreprises en difficulté - 154,80€
Petites affiches - 222,00€
Revue des contrats - 374,40€
Revue française de finances publiques - 226,80€
Revue générale du droit des assurances - 330,00€
Revue du droit public - 183,60€
Another important product is the case law database containing 750 000 decisions
of all French courts.
Contact
Lextenso
Address: 2, rue Montesquieu - 75001 Paris
Phone: 01 40 93 40 40
Fax: 01 41 09 92 14
Website: http://www.lextenso.fr/weblextenso/
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Email: [email protected]
Company
name
LEXBASE
Business
entity
Management
Fabien Waechter, Fabien Girard de Barros
Company
structure
Financial
figures
Official partners of Lexbase are the following companies:

L’Association française du Droit des Affaires et Gestion des Entreprises
(ADAGE) (www.adage.asso.fr)

L’Association pour le Développement de l’Informatique Juridique (ADIJ)
(www.adij.fr/)

AFFICHES PARISIENNES (www.affiches-parisiennes.com/)

AFJE (www.afje.org)

ARCA CONSEIL (www.arca.fr)

ASSOCIATION HENRI CAPITANT (www.henricapitantlawreview.fr)

BUROCLIC (www.buro-clic.com)

CENTRALE D'ANNONCES LÉGALES (www.annoncelegale.com)

E-COCO (www.ecoco.fr)
Capital: 1 244 624 €
Turnover: 2 582 849 € (2013)
Profit: 603 237 € (2013)
Headcount: 19 (2013)
Short
description
Lexbase was founded in 2008 for journal`s publishing.
Products and
services
Apart from its publishing activity today Lexbase company is working in the area of
data processing. They publish a big number of legal reviews and encyclopaedias.
Their legislation database includes all French codes, Official Journal`s issues,
collective agreements and acts of different independent administrative authorities.
In the area of case law the company offers a significant amount of decisions of all
French national jurisdictions.
Contact
Lexbase
Address: 1, rue Ambroise Thomas 75009 Paris
Phone: 01 44 79 93 01
Website: http://www.nouveau.site.lexbase.fr/
Company
name
Juritel
Business
entity
Management
Jean-Claude PATIN
Company
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structure
Juritel is an official partner of Scanclic, ID marketing, JuriTravail, Le Village de la
Justice, Agrooh.com, Photobis and Azique.
According to the information on their website Juritel is an active member of the
following associations:

Syndicat professionnel du recouvrement de créances A.N.C.R.

Assurance RCP

Assurance RCP Stratégie,

Activité déclarée au Procureur de la République d'EVRY

Club Essonne Conseils

S.Y.R.P.A.

Forum des Droits de l'Internet (dissous en 2010)

Forum Atena
Financial
figures
Capital: 42.685 €
Short
description
The company was founded in 1995 for legal information services and mediation.
Products and
services
Juritel offers decrees and court decisions divided into categories like contract law
and internet law.
Contact
Juritel
Address: 108 avenue Roger Salengro
91600 Savigny sur orge - FRANCE
Phone: +33 1 69 05 80 25
Fax: +33 1 69 05 80 15
Website: http://www.juritel.com
Company
name
Luxia
Business
entity
Simplified joint-stock company
Management
Georges-André Silber
Company
structure
n.a.
Financial
figures
Capital: 10 000 €
Short
description
The company was founded in 2009. Its main activity is computer programming.
Products
services
Contact
and
Luxia is using the content of the official portal of French law Légifrance and the
European database EUR-Lex for codes, regulations and case law and establishing
relations and inks between the acts. Database is divided into two big groups –
French and European law. All documents are in HTML format.
Luxia
Address: 32 boulevard de Strasbourg 75010, Paris
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Website: http://alinea.luxia.fr/
Company
name
Lexis Nexis (France)
Business
entity
Public limited company
Management
M. Philippe CARILLON
Company
structure
Division of the Anglo-Dutch Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis is historically renowned for
the performance of its online information services which the company has
pioneered. The group Lexis Nexis is now present in more than 100 countries and
owns the largest legal publishing brands in the world - each a leader in their
country of origin, such as JurisClasseur in France, Lex Polonica in Poland, the
Butterworths in the United Kingdom and Australia, Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew
Bender and Shepard's in the United States, Giuffre Editore in Italy.
Financial
figures
Capital: 1 584 800 €
Revenue: 136 263 000€ (2012)
Result: 27 934 000 € (2012)
Headcount: 437 (2012)
Short
description
The company was founded in 1955. Its main activity is publishing of legal
magazines and periodicals.
Products and
services
All activity of Lexis Nexis SA can be generalised in three domains: legal news
(more than 32 periodicals in all fields of law for every kind of legal professionals),
legal documents (almost 500 codes and academic books, 77 encyclopaedias),
management (7500 acts for all sectors of activity).
Some of Lexis Nexis’ products are:

Lexis360®

Lexis360® Entreprises

Lexis360® Notaires

Lexis360® Public

Lexis360® Huissiers

LexisNexis JurisClasseur

Contentieux de l'indemnisation

Lexis Explore

Lexis Procédures

LexisNexis Business Information Solutions

LexisNexis Compliance Assurance

Pratiques Métier

LexisNexis E.U Tracker

SOlutions PRAtique NOtariale - JurisClasseurSoprano.fr
All services and products are listed on:
http://www.lexisnexis.fr/produits_services/index.html
Contact
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Address: 141 R DE JAVEL
75015 PARIS
Phone: 0821200700
Fax : 01 45 58 94 14
Website: http://www.lexisnexis.fr/
Company
name
Éditions des Parques
Business
entity
Management
Raphaël d’Assignies
Company
structure
n.a.
Financial
figures
Capital: 7.622,45 €
Short
description
The company was founded in 1982 for publishing of legal periodicals, but today it
is specialised in intellectual property law and law of new technologies.
Products and
services
Éditions des Parques offers almost 2200 full text decisions with detailed comments
and news in these legal areas: copyright law, software, databases, brands,
responsibility, illegal content, private life, defamation and e-commerce.
Contact
Éditions des Parques
Address: 54, rue de Paradis - 75010 PARIS
Phone: 0 825 08 08 00
Fax: 01 76 73 30 00
Website: http://www.legalis.net/
UK
Company
name
THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK
Business
entity
Private limited company
Management
David Thomson
Company
structure
The company is part of the worldwide leader in legal information THOMSON
REUTERS. All trading names used by the Legal Division of Thomson Reuters
(Professional) UK Limited are:
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Sweet & Maxwell

Current Legal Information (CLI)

Criminal Law Week

Digita

FloSuite
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
Lawtel

Legal Hub

Localaw

Round Hall

Solcara

W Green

Westlaw International

Westlaw UK
Only Sweet & Maxwell company includes:

W. Green – Edinburgh-based publisher of an unrivalled collection of
books, periodicals, encyclopaedias and digital products on Scots law

Round Hall – formed in 1980 and now established as the legal Irish legal
publisher, employing around 25 staff in its Dublin office

IDS – Incomes Data Services is a research organisation providing
information and analysis on employment law, diversity, pay and reward,
HR and pensions

Sweet & Maxwell Asia – one of Asia-Pacific's foremost providers of
professional information to the legal, accountancy and regulatory markets
in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

Ellis Publications – based in Maastricht, Netherlands, ELLIS Publications
has established itself as a global leader in EU law, providing up-to-date,
fully-integrated and cross-referenced EU legal materials in a variety of
languages and formats.
Financial
figures
Turnover for the group: 13 million U.S. Dollars (2013)
Short
description
Founded in 1982 as part of Thomson Reuters group which has more than 200
years history.
Products and
services
For the United Kingdom THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK offers
many products and services, the most famous among which are:
Westlaw UK provides access to vast and easily searchable databases of case
law, legislation, news, journals, commentary, current awareness alerts and EU
legal materials.
Westlaw International is Thomson Legal and Regulatory's premiere online
research tool for the international legal community. It is online legal information
service. Westlaw International enables legal professionals to retrieve cases,
statutes, and other documents from TLR's vast global library of legal and business
materials in a matter of seconds. Westlaw International combines essential,
authoritative information resources with the technical innovation by combining
materials from renowned content providers such as Sweet & Maxwell, ELLIS
Publications, Lawbook Co, Carswell, and West Group, Westlaw International offers
a unique collection of trustworthy legal and regulatory information. Westlaw
international gives access to selected Case Law, Legislation, Law Reviews,
Treaties, and Directories organised by topical and jurisdictional libraries. It includes
European Union legislation, court decisions, regulatory materials, parliamentary
measures and treaties.
Sweet & Maxwell – the White Book, Archbold and Chitty on Contracts are just
three of the hundreds of books, looseleafs and journals covering all areas of the
law.
Round Hall publishes a wide array of legal material in book, journal and looseleaf
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formats, covering Irish laws and regulations.
W. Green includes a range of digital products including Westlaw UK, Scots Law
and the flagship Scots Law Times Reports on CD.
ELLIS Publications has established itself as a global leader in EU law, providing
up-to-date, fully-integrated and cross-referenced EU legal materials in a variety of
languages and formats.
Westlaw UK Scots Law is online service offering consolidated, full-text Scottish
and UK legislation, Scots Law Times cases, Session Cases, The Legal Journals
Index and Scottish Current Awareness.
Lawtel is the online research service that delivers up-to-the-minute legal news in a
straightforward format. It provides same day coverage for the Supreme Court and
overnight reporting of selected cases from the higher courts, as well as legislation,
articles, press coverage and practical precedents. The product offers instant
access to documents from all the official EU sources (Official Journal, EUR-Lex /
CELEX, Curia, Prelex and other) in a digestible and easily searchable format.
IDS provides authoritative information on pay, HR and employment law through a
wide range of online services, books, journals, conferences, training and bespoke
research.
Contact
THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK
2ND FLOOR, ALDGATE HOUSE
33 ALDGATE HIGH STREET
LONDON
Phone: 1 800.344.5008
Website: http://thomsonreuters.com/legal/united-kingdom/#
Company
name
JUSTIS PUBLISHING
Business
entity
Management
n.a.
Company
structure
Member of the Scandex group of companies. Publishing partners of Justis are:
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Blackwell Publishing
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Cambridge University Press

Cameron May
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CCH

EUR-OP

Hart Publishing

The House of Commons

ICLR

The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland

Jordan Publishing

LS Law

Practical Law Company

OPSI
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
Oxford University Press

RMIT Publishing

SCLR

Singapore Academy of Law

Southside Legal Publishing

Sweet & Maxwell

TimeBase

The Times

TSO

Vathek Publishing
Financial
figures
n.a.
Short
description
The company was founded in 1985 for different publishing activities. Justis is a full
text online legal library of UK, Irish and EU law dating back to 1163. They are a
publisher of electronic legal information and provider of publishing software and
services. The company has been publishing titles online and on CD-ROM since
1986 and has secured a leading position in this sector, concentrating particularly
on United Kingdom and European Union legal, official and business information.
Products and
services
Justis Publishing offers three main products: Justis (UK and European Case Law
and Legislation), JustCite (Advanced Citator and Catalogue for Legal Information
Services) and Tenders (European Public Procurement Contracts and Tenders).
The Justice CELEX system comprises data from all EU official sources: the
Commission, Council, Parliament and Court of Justice – treaties, external
agreements, secondary and supplementary legislation, proposed legislation, case
law, national implementing measures with references to the UK Statutory
Instruments, OJ C and EFTA documents. However, the development of some
unique software features has greatly enhanced its usability and has made the
Justice CELEX system a reliable instrument for legal research for hundreds of
thousands of lawyers, librarians, civil servants, academics and businesses
worldwide. These features include:

Powerful search options (highly refined free text search, form search,
contents search and reference/citation search, search using colloquial
terms);

Saved searches and free alerting service: save any search for future use
and receive email notification of the latest updates to Justis CELEX;

J-Link technology – an advanced way of exploiting hypertext legal
references by enabling the user to link directly to the full text of a Justis
CELEX document from almost any reference to it in the text of another
document, including external sources;

J-View (Crossref) – a powerful visual tool for tracking the development of
EU law.
Another useful tool for international legal research of Justis Publishing Ltd is the
product JustCite. It is an online legal reference search engine, which provides a
fully cross-referenced index to an extensive collection of authoritative UK and
European legal information. What makes JustCite unique is that it indexes and
links to full-text content from a range of publishers.
The information currently indexed on JustCite includes:
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Cases (SCLR);
Contact

specialist case law series, including Criminal Appeal Reports (Sweet &
Maxwell), Industrial Cases Reports (ICLR) and Lloyd’s Law Reports
(Informa);

transcripts from the Courts of Appeal, Administrative Court and London’s
High Court (Smith Bernal Reporting);

UK Statutes and Statutory Instruments (HMSO);

CELEX, the official legal database of the European Union.
JUSTIS PUBLISHING LIMITED
GROUND FLOOR, BONNINGTON BOND
2 ANDERSON PLACE
EDINBURGH
Phone: +44 (0)20 7284 8080
Fax: +44 (0)20 7267 1133
Website: http://www.justispublishing.com/
Company
name
CASECHECK
Business
entity
Management
n.a.
Company
structure
n.a.
Financial
figures
n.a.
Short
description
The company was founded in 2007. Its main activity is establishing of web portals.
Products and
services
CaseCheck is an extensive resource of court cases and case law used by lawyers,
law students, in-house lawyers, paralegals, claims handlers, barristers and
advocates throughout the UK and the rest of the world. Case law archive is kept
continually up to date, as are their news articles and e-books. The website offers
also access to UK legislation via links to the official source:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk. CaseCheck provides case law systematised by
months and categories. There is a choice between different jurisdictions – United
Kingdom, Northern Ireland (County Courts, the Crown Court, High Court, Court of
Appeal & the UK Supreme Court), Scotland (Sheriff Courts, Court of Session, the
Supreme Court & the High Court of Justiciary), England and Wales (Magistrates'
Courts, County Courts, the Crown Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal, the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the UK Supreme Court) and EU (a few
decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU in almost every field of law).
Contact
Casecheck
Address: 1 SIMONSBURN ROAD
KILMARNOCK
AYRSHIRE
SCOTLAND
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Phone: 0845 620 5664
Website: http://www.casecheck.co.uk/
Company
name
WOLTERS KLUWER (UK) LIMITED
Business
entity
Management
Croner House
Company
structure
WOLTERS KLUWER (UK) LIMITED is part of the global company Wolters Kluwer.
In the United Kingdom they have three divisions Croner, CCH and WK Health.
Financial
figures
Turnover of the group: 3.37 billion EUR
Short
description
Wolters Kluwer is a multinational information services company which is listed on
Euronext in Amsterdam. It is providing smart information tools for professionals.
Wolters Kluwer UK, incorporating the core brands of CCH and Croner, is one of the
UK's most respected providers of information and consultancy services. The British
division of the global company is founded in 1948. Its main activity is book
publishing and information services in many sectors like Tax, Accountancy, Human
Resources and Health & Safety. Wolters Kluwer (UK) Ltd is authorised and
regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority for general insurance business.
Products and
services
In the United Kingdom Wolters Kluwer offers a number of products under the
following brands:
Headcount of the group: 19.000
Croner – an online small business toolkit for start-ups and smaller businesses,
giving easy access to information and templates for workplace legislation
(http://cronersolutions.co.uk/). It is also targeting HR Professionals for HR
management and Sectors and Associations for Social Care and Healthcare home
management.
CCH – includes online solutions for businesses in the area of tax, accounting and
audit (http://www.cch.co.uk/): books, packages, software, protection, consultancy
and support for these domains.
Other solutions offered by Wolters Kluwer in the United Kingdom are WK Health
(http://www.wolterskluwerhealth.com/pages/welcome.aspx) for health information
services and WK Financial services (http://www.wolterskluwerfs.com/) for solutions
addressing Risk, Compliance, Finance and Audit.
Contact
WOLTERS KLUWER (UK) LIMITED
Address: 145 LONDON ROAD
KINGSTON UPON THAMES
SURREY
Phone: 020 8547 3333
Fax: 020 8547 2637
Website: http://www.wolterskluwer.co.uk/
Company
name
REED ELSEVIER (UK) LIMITED
Business
entity
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Management
Christian Fleck
Company
structure
REED ELSEVIER (UK) LIMITED is a British division of the global legal provider
Reed Elsevier group. Its trading name for the market in the United Kingdom is
LexisNexis.
Financial
figures
Headcount of the group: 15.000
Short
description
REED ELSEVIER (UK) LIMITED is founded in 1992. Reed Elsevier group helps
customers to achieve their goals in more than 100 countries, across six continents.
Products and
services
The company offers a variety of services in the area of Legal intelligence, Business
management, Tax & Accounting, Enterprise software and Legal education. Some of
the most popular products and services under the brand LexisNexis in the United
Kingdom are:

All England Law Reports – general series of law reports enjoying reputation
in all common law jurisdictions. Updated weekly, the archive provides, in
full text, cases heard by the House of Lords, the Privy Council, both
divisions of the Court of Appeal and all divisions of the High Court in a
consistent and highly readable style.

Atkin's Court Forms – covering over 130 practice areas, this work provides
practitioners with a collection of the main procedural documents required in
every civil proceeding before the courts and judicial tribunals of England
and Wales

Citation Checking – an application which sits with in LexisDraft toolbar and
automatically locates legal citations in Word, Adobe Reader & Acrobat and
Web documents. Use it when drafting or reviewing documents, determining
reliability of content, or monitoring client documents and knowhow for legal
changes.

Criminal Law & Justice – it offers topical and informative news and
commentary on all areas of criminal law and issues affecting the courts

The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents – comprises a set of 90+
volumes, a Consolidated Index, a Consolidated Table of Cases and
Statutory Materials, Form Finder and regular looseleaf updating

Halsbury's Laws of England – covers the whole spectrum of English law

EU Tax Cases Tracker – online service which allows user to follow his
cases from national court referral, through Advocate General opinion and
onto ECJ judgment

Journal of International Banking and Financial Law – authoritative journal
providing practitioners with the very latest developments in banking and
financial law internationally

LawyerLocator – helps consumers and small businesses find a solicitor in
our free-to-search database of all 11,500 UK legal professionals

LexisLibrary – comprehensive collection of annotated legislation, cases,
forms, precedents and commentary

LexisNexis Analytics - monitoring tool for risk and reputation management.
Other products are: Cordery on Legal Services, CPD Seminars Online, Insurance,
Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales, InterAction, Free Practice Compliance
HealthCheck, Law In-House Training, Law Webinars, Law Conferences, LexisDraft,
Lexis PSL Practice Compliance, LexisSmart Precedents, Lexis Contract Finder,
LexisSmart Bespoke, LexisSmart Whitelabel, Lexis Diligence, LexisPSL,
LexisSmart Forms, Martindale Hubbell, PatentOptimizer, Redwood Analytics, New
Law Journal, Nexis Direct, Nexis Publisher, Nexis UK, No Claims Discount,
Practice Compliance Webinars and Training, Project Nimbus, Risk and Practice
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Compliance Consulting, Tax Analysts, Taxation, Tax Conferences, Tax Journal,
Tax Tutor, Tax Webinars, Tolley Exam Training, TolleyGuidance, TolleyLibrary,
TotalPatent, Vat Update and Visualfiles.
Contact
REED ELSEVIER (UK) LIMITED
Address: 1-3 STRAND
LONDON
Phone: + 44 (0)845 3701234
Website: http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/
LexisNexis
Lexis House
30 Farringdon Street
EC4A 4HH
London, United Kingdom
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